Re: Msdos name alias patch for 2.1.48

Marcin Dalecki (dalecki@sub994.sub.uni-goettingen.de)
Fri, 8 Aug 1997 08:10:31 +0200 (MET DST)


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.