Fw: Pet names, true names, and nicknames Jonathan S. Shapiro (shap@eros-os.org)
Wed, 12 Apr 2000 20:51:20 -0400

Bugger. This is why I wanted to mung reply-to!



From: "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <shap@eros-os.org> To: "Bill Frantz" <frantz@communities.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: Pet names, true names, and nicknames

> > Are you correctly handling systems, like Mac and Windows, which treat
> upper
> > and lower case letters as the same value in filenames?
>
> The only conceivable response to this is "oh fuck."
>
> The answer is "no". If this issue is real I will need to revert to a
base-32
> encoding, which has little benefit over straight hex. Please let me know
> ASAP if this is a real issue, and on which file systems.
>
> Also, what is the filename length limit on Mac(l)Os(s)? There may just be
no
> way.
>
>
> shap
>