Re: VFAT kernel considerations

[stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz (Petr Stehlik)]

On Mon, 18 May 1998 14:16:32 -0400, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

MR> >>    Since enabling VFAT on A, I notice files are always written as
MR> >>    lowercase, even though I might have copied from a TOSFS drive.
MR> >
MR> >That make your desktop.
MR>
MR>Say that again?  That has nothing to do with the desktop.

It definitely has.

MR>Try "cp /c/newdesk.inf /a/newdesk.inf" and you get a case
MR>conversion automatically, even though the original file
MR>was uppercase.

:-) that's very wrong. Try out "cp /c/newdesk.inf /a/NEWDESK.INF" and
you get the upper case as you always wanted. So you see, it's up to the
copy program how it handles the filenames. And desktop is the copy
program, just like "cp".

Petr
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