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Surely they are stored with case, but the Windows 95 search algorithm
ignores it?

--
Niall Smart
Customer Engineering,
IONA Technologies. (www.iona.com)

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.
> 
> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
>