RE: why are win/dos files UPPER CASE ?
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 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 on EXT2 and VFAT partitions , existing
> win/dos files are as they where ???).
>
> Im continuing to read the doc's , im not to sure which one for this one
>:).
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