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Re: revisiting case sensitivity

From: Arturus Magi <sailorleo at isonews2 dot com>
To: beau <phaedral at gmail dot com>
Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 20:06:31 -0500
Subject: Re: revisiting case sensitivity
References: <95a88306050401124938de1fef@mail.gmail.com>
Reply-to: sailorleo at isonews2 dot com

beau wrote:

Greetings,

I've got a whole bunch of directories and files, formerly on debian,
burnt to CD, that XP will only see as ALLCAPS.

Are you sure the disc is formatted with a filesystem that allows for lowercase characters? The ISO 9660 standard is a least common denominator standard, which means 8+3 characters, case insensitive. UDF, Juliet, and RockRidge allow for different semantics, but they all have their quirks too (Juliet is also case insensitive, for one, and that's the format most versions of Windows will read, if multiple filesystem headers are present. Adaptec/Roxio burning software may change this to UDF on install, but that's not entirely reliable).

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