Re: uppercase filenames

[Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net>]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:43:34PM -0300, Alejandro Néstor Vargas wrote:
> I've just installed dosemu-1.1.5.6, it's workign right but in some cases 
> the files created by the dos are created as uppercase in the linux 
> filesystem. In particular, I can create directories with md and they are 
> created as lowercase, but if I uses mkdir form a Turbo Pascal program, it 
> is created as uppercase. The same occurs from inside the ide of Turbo 
> Pascal: the files (source codes) are created as uppercase. I searched for a 
> configuration for this but I coudn't find any reference of this.

If you are using a lredir drive, the relevant code is in dosext/mfs/mfs.c,
in dos_fs_redirect().  It looks like the file is created verbatim to the DOS
create command; if the DOS programmer happened to use all uppercase or
some mixed case in his program, the file is actually created with that
case on the unix side, even though on the dos side it is all treated as
universal case.

I agree that having mixed case filenames under unix tends to be an
annoyance.  Perhaps this should be made into a configurable option.

-- 
Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253
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