Re: 8 character filenames on msdos floppy
dman wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:26:07AM +0100, Eric Smith wrote:
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> | oops - now I get this:
> | [eric@cherry ~] 2 $ cp Samenwerkingsovereenkomst.doc /floppy&&ls /floppy
> | projec~1.dot samenwer.doc samenw~1.doc
> | ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> |
> | which I prefer to the ~1 type but it still aint what I want :(
>
> Is the disk really vfat? Does 'mount' say it is mounted as vfat?
> What does windows see it as? I wouldn't be surprised if you lost the
> case of the name (neither vfat nor msdos is case-sensitive).
they are case-preserving, when using the name it is case insensitive
(e.g. you call program Prg.exe so you can use e.g. PRG.EXE to run it but
I am not sure if this case insensitivity is done by file system or
windows tools (I guess it's filesystem)).
erik
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