NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/networki/2581

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From: [e-mail] (Michael Traub)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: OS/2 NFS Server doesn't convert case?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 30 Dec 92 21:29:46 GMT
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Robert Gammon) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Michael Traub) writes:
> >> 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)

Thanks Robert, unfortunately you didn't answer my question. I know full
well that FAT filenames are stored in upper case. The NFS servers I have
previously seen convert them to all lower case for consumption of the client.
This way the filenames appear in the natural case of the client machine.
At present all my filenames on the server are in upper case and get mangled
when using DOS-Merge to view them.



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Michael Traub
BT Customer Systems, Brighton Systems Centre. [e-mail]