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Re: [ecs] upper-case file names on a FAT32 flash ? Ingo Pakleppa Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:52:04 -0700

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I think it probably has to do with the design of long-filename support
in Windows. For some reason, long filename support translated all-upper
names to all-lower when storing, and back when displaying file names.
When using mixed case, that doesn't happen. Basically,
long-filename-support doesn't support all-upper file names on disk (and
therefore also no all-lower filenames in displaying).

I know that's what happens, but I can't tell you exactly *why* it was
done this way. Might have to do with the transition from 8.3 to long
file names. I believe this is a FAT-specific problem.

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 07:58 -0700, Mark Gilmore wrote:
> might anyone know why i cannot create files/dirs with upper-case characters 
> on a FAT32 USB Flash ?
> thanks,
> 
> Mark Gilmore
> http://OmnipotenceSoftware.com 
> 

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