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From: Tommy Hallgren <md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > In Windows95 everything looked fine. But in Linux(which I used back then)
> > every filename was in lower case. :-(
> 
> In Windows95, long file names are case sensitive on storage, case
> insensitive on lookup.  I believe lowercasing them was an acessability
> hack in the CDROM driver on Linux.

They are lower case using FreeBSD too. :-(

Mvh: Tommy