Windows (and dos) has no concept of case, Linux chooses to show them as uppercase. You will also note that if you mount a fat partition in linux all the files have the x bit turned on, even txt files. This is another side effect of browsing the fat files.
On 05-Dec-98 John Leget wrote: > How do i get linux to see win/dos as lower case. > > I came across this when i was copying some quake files using SAMBA they > come out in linux as all upper case, first i thought it was samba but i > zipped the files up copied the zip, used MC to have a look in the zip > and all upper case again. ( both on EXT2 and VFAT partitions , existing > win/dos files are as they where ???). > > Im continuing to read the doc's , im not to sure which one for this one >:).
