VFAT is case insensitive?!

[Alvin Thompson]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 18:36 +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
> vfat IS case-insenstive.  It's a limitation of the filesystem.  I don't know 
> how you ever did NOT have that problem.  NTFS is a little better, iirc -- it 
> keeps the case you use, but will access the same file whichever case you use.  
> I also think the earlier DOSes (much earlier, that is) used to baulk if you 
> used anything but a particular case.  Not sure if it was upper or lower -- I 
> think lower.

yup, but i thought it worked from linux in a case-sensitive way. at
least i thought it displayed stuff in the right case. maybe i just never
noticed...

-alvin

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