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Date:      Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:13:54 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se (Tommy Hallgren)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CDROM image
Message-ID:  <199709172013.NAA13644@usr02.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970917190459.6240A-100000@grosse.mdstud.chalmers.se> from "Tommy Hallgren" at Sep 17, 97 07:18:19 pm

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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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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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