[plug] case-independent filenames

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.smileys.net
Mon Oct 23 12:11:04 WST 2000


Trevor Phillips wrote:
>   - The whole FAT32 thing is to get around the age-old problem of
> case-sensitive filenames!! Yep! Written for a Windoze world, they're obviously
> referencing files with different case than they are installed as. Putting it on
> a FAT32 drive negates this problem, as asking for a filename with different
> case will still get to the file. There's probably a non-FAT32 way of doing
> this, but I don't have time to fiddle when I have a solution. ^_^

strings <java_file.class | less
ln -s basename.img BaseName.IMG
ln -s windowsprogrammersareweenies.bmp winDoWsprogrammErsarewEenies.Bmp
...and so on...

Or make a small virtual disk and FATten it.

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