Subject: Re: Upper/lower case - FAT32 partition
To: Jean-Luc Wasmer <jl+netbsd@lists.wasmer.ca>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/12/2005 11:05:02
In message <41E540D3.8000509@lists.wasmer.ca>, Jean-Luc Wasmer writes:
>Hi,
>
>Is there a way to mount a FAT32 partition in such way that filenames are 
>interpreted the same way as Windows?
>
>Currently files that are all lower case letters show up with upper case 
>letters (I guess that's how Windows write the entry in the directory).
>
The best solution I found, after looking at the code a bit, was to 
create a placeholder file with a long, mixed-case name.

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb