Re: tlug: Japanese support in MSDOS and VFAT file systems

["Andrew S. Howell" <andy@example.com>]

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull@example.com> writes:

    Stephen> Well, do they?  Anybody know?  I get weird and
    Stephen> intermittent behavior even on simple directory listings
    Stephen> of my c:\windows directory (mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /W95
    Stephen> or mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /W95) which contains various
    Stephen> Japanese (SJIS) file names.  I've never had any trouble
    Stephen> with any path containing only ASCII characters, of
    Stephen> course.

Years ( 10-11? ) ago, I remember having problems on a 3Com file server
with SJIS. MS Dos wants to fold all the lower case to upper, which
does not work so well with SJIS :) Maybe that is what is happening
here?

Andy
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