Hello,
Windows (and dos) has no concept of case, Linux chooses to show them as
uppercase.
This is not completely true. For Samba, it's actually DOS choosing to show
them in upper case. If you have Win95, you'll see long names in the correct
case, 8.3 names in all-caps.
That said, Samba does
On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 09:27:36AM -0500, Shaleh wrote:
Windows (and dos) has no concept of case, Linux chooses to show them as
That's not quite correct. Windows with VFAT is case preserving but
not case sensitive. Linux will show the files as whatever they were
created as in Windows.
hamish
How do i get linux to see win/dos as lower case.
I came across this when i was copying some quake files using SAMBA they
come out in linux as all upper case, first i thought it was samba but i
zipped the files up copied the zip, used MC to have a look in the zip
and all upper case again. ( both
Windows (and dos) has no concept of case, Linux chooses to show them as
uppercase. You will also note that if you mount a fat partition in linux all
the files have the x bit turned on, even txt files. This is another side
effect of browsing the fat files.
On 05-Dec-98 John Leget wrote:
How do
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote:
Windows (and dos) has no concept of case, Linux chooses to show them as
uppercase. You will also note that if you mount a fat partition in linux all
the files have the x bit turned on, even txt files. This is another side
effect of browsing the fat files.
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