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Subject: Re: read only under linux

Re: read only under linux

From: Linus Nielsen Feltzing <linus_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:37:31 +0200

Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 pvrb_at_nekophile.com wrote:
>
>> 1 - some files added in windows had their directory names uppercased
>> as presented in rockbox, even though everything appears lc in a shell
>> view.
>
>
> That is due to the nature of FAT. If the name is 8 letters or less, it
> is only stored with a short name and that is uppercase only.
>

Also, the vfat driver shows short file names in lowercase, even if it is
technically upper case in the FAT dir structure. I honestly don't know why.

Linus

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