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- From: 5692330@mcimail.com (Robert Gammon)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 NFS Server doesn't convert case?
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- References: <1992Dec29.090150.3749@rtf.bt.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:18:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.090150.3749@rtf.bt.co.uk> traub@rtf.bt.co.uk (Michael Traub) writes:
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- >> I installed the OS/2 NFS Server but noticed that from Unix all the
- >> files on my FAT partition come out in upper case. Is there a way to
- >> alter this behaviour? When I run Dos Merge under Unix I cannot
- >> access my files on the OS/2 NFS mounted drives as all the names
- >> have been mangled. Surely the OS/2 Server should convert the case
- >> of all file/directory names on a FAT partition to lower case?
- >>
- >>
-
- Nope, it can't, and it is not alone in this regards. The FAT file system does
- NOT support lower case file names. All lower case names are converted to
- upper case before the directory entry is written. This characteristic of FAT
- is NOT present in HPFS partitions, UNIX lower case names are permitted as are
- long file names (i.e. not conforming to 8.3 filename.ext convention)
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