On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Fergus Daly wrote:
> Fergus
>
> WLSQS wlsqs0line wlsqsline wlsqsregr _Sdiff _Sprob _Stdnorm _Stdnorm_ .sc
> MRXVT mrxvt.readme .bash_history rxvt.Iiyama.LNK rxvt.Viglen.LNK Data
> Perfect.pif MS-DOS Prompt.pif Outlook Express.lnk rxvt.LNK
>
> In the above list everything is named correctly except for WLSQS (should be
> wlsqs) and MRXVT (should be mrxvt).
Unfortunatly this is a windows problem.
Windows _is_ case rude (like that :-) so any problems with case are ignored
by M$.
The case preservation of windows only works with the 'long' file name on a
VFAT filesystem, the short names are always case smashed to upper case on
the disk.
Different parts and versions of windows interpret the case of a short file
name differently!
Explorer will normally Title case (captialise the first character) WinNT
(IIRC) tends to convert to lower case, Win9X to upper case. Plus I'm sure
there are other variations I've forgotten.
If a particular part of windows thinks that a file fits in 8+3 with the
case that it thinks is right it will not write an LFN.
Linux has to pick one setup, of course for many people it will be the
wrong one. (However the mtools programs can be configured)
--
Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
<http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>
