| Date | Fri, 8 Aug 1997 08:10:31 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Marcin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: Msdos name alias patch for 2.1.48 |
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On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> What sort of case-insensitivity do various filesystems currently support? > Are we talking A-Z only, Latin1, or what? I guess we don't really need to > worry about what could theoretically be the worst case, but what MS-DOS, > NT, OS/2 etc actually do right now.. > > Linus > Sorry. MS-DOS ** IS NOT ** case insensitive. It is ONLY command.com.... So Linus: plase don't worry at all. If somebody using an MS-DOS filesystem went into trouble by writing wrong case filenames onto it NOTHING bad would happen to DOS. The other way around it's anyway an non issue.
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