Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:19:44 +0100 (BST) From: Niall Smart <nsmart@iona.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Tommy Hallgren <md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM image Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970918101907.16878J-100000@ultra> In-Reply-To: <199709172013.NAA13644@usr02.primenet.com>
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Surely they are stored with case, but the Windows 95 search algorithm ignores it? -- Niall Smart Customer Engineering, IONA Technologies. (www.iona.com) On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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 > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. >
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