On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:30:55AM -0000, Fergus Daly wrote:
> I mounted
> 
>     mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt (a FAT32 hard drive)
>     mount -t vfat /dev/fd0h1440 /fl (a DOS formatted floppy)
> 
> and then copied recursively a directory + subdirectories from the hard drive
> to the floppy using cp -vR. Anything called /mnt/filename was copied to
> /fl/FILENAME. Is there a way I can preserve case while copying to a DOS
> floppy rather than a fd0u1722?

Nope. Plain vanilla FAT, as in Mess-DOS, is neither case sensitive nor
case preserving. Everything gets turned to upper case. COMMAND.COM,
the Mess-DOS shell, will upper case file names for you, so you can
type in file names in lower case. But it's all upper case on the disk.

VFAT (W95 & up, NT4 & up) is case preserving and case insensitive
(case rude?). If VFAT will serve your purpose, use it.

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