> Hello,
>
> there were some complaints about linux not handling upper/lowercase
> filenames in vfat correctly (they are below). So I did some investigation.
> I created following directories (or files, it does not matter):
>
> in Linux: LINUP, linlow
> in win98: 98UP, 98low
> in NT4: NTUP, ntlow
> in W2k: W2KUP, w2klow
>
> Now what ls/dir shows:
>
> in Linux: LINUP, linlow, 98up, 98low, ntup, ntlow, w2kup, w2klow
> in win98: LINUP, LINLOW, 98UP, 98low, NTUP, NTLOW, W2KUP, W2KLOW
> in NT4: LINUP, linlow, 98UP, 98low, NTUP, ntlow, W2KUP, w2klow
> in W2K: LINUP, linlow, 98UP, 98low, NTUP, ntlow, W2KUP, w2klow
>
> So I would suggest NT/W2K shows everything correctly (if we can call so,
> because microsoft mixed everything up), and win98/Linux shows differently
> in opposite directions. I think Linux should follow one of win95/98 or NT/W2K,
> and since NT/W2K seams more reasonable, Linux could display filenames
> like NT (Linux creates filenames similar to NT already).
Yes. The problem being: how to deal with DOS-style names (no extended
records). I suspect that everybody else use them when they want uppercase.
We can do the same (show those beasts in uppercase), but it will mean
utter ugliness for FAT mounted as VFAT.
OK, just for sanity check - could you do that on a diskette and drop the
(gzipped) image on FTP somewhere? Or just email it to me if it will be
small (it will, if you will start from dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0;
mformat a:).
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