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Subject: Re: CDROM image
To: md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se (Tommy Hallgren)
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> In Windows95 everything looked fine. But in Linux(which I used back then)
> every filename was in lower case. :-(

In Windows95, long file names are case sensitive on storage, case
insensitive on lookup.  I believe lowercasing them was an acessability
hack in the CDROM driver on Linux.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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