On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 10:29:38AM -0500, Lewis, James M. wrote: > > I just got caught by a vfat property that I wasn't aware of. I know > about not supporting certain file properties. I was not aware that > you can't have 2 files of the same name except for upper/lower case > differences. An example... > > cp MYFILE.txt myfile.txt /zip/ > > will result in only myfile.txt on the zip drive cartridge. > Guess I'll use cpio or tar archives from now on... (lucky > I have mks toolkit on the nt box) > > Even old dogs get caught napping now and then. yup, MS filesystems are broken and case insensitive. so are Apple filesystems. (except apple/NeXT's UFS varient) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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