On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 05:58:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/11/07 14:55, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 03/11/07 08:43, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > >>> When I copy files to vfat drives , filenames case is changed to lower > >>> case. > >>> Is there any way to keep them as they are ie FileName as FileName > >>> instead of > filename or FILENAME as FILENAME instead of filename ? > >> FAT is not case-sensitive. > >> > > True, but it *is* case-preserving. > > I though that was only when MSFT did the 8.3 file-naming games. > No. The converted 8.3 names are all caps. The long names are case-preserved as when they are created. The linux vfat driver has some option that disallows all-caps and so will sometimes convert filenames to all lower-case.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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