Micah wrote:
The reason is as follows: a.txt is an 8.3 filename and is stored on fat32 in the old dos format. a.txt~ is NOT an 8.3 filename and is stored on fat32 in the extended long filename format. Case information is not stored in 8.3's file names. They're always the same case, but I can't remember now if they're stored as upper or lower case. Extended long filenames do store case information, even though windows ignores the case (as was pointed out earlier). FreeBSD is displaying 8.3 names as lowercase probably to mimic the tendency of unix filenames to be lowercase. Windows displays 8.3 names as upper case probably to mimic dos.
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