Mail Archives: opendos/1997/06/03/14:39:00
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>> From: Roger Ivie <IVIE AT cc DOT usu DOT edu>
>> MORRIS JP wrote:
>> > It seems that at least part of the filesystem is already case-sensitive
>> > internally. I found this on my HDD the other day:
>> [[[ snip ]]]
>> > MAiN tXT 7347 28/05/97 16:37
>> [[[ snip ]]]
>> > Check out MAiN.tXT, (7347 bytes, 28/05/97)
>> >
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>Another way to do it is use a sector editor and zap the directory
>entry, converting it to a standard filename. That's how I dealt with
>a file someone created in Concurrent DOS once which somehow acquired
>a backslash as the lead character in the filename. But that's brain
>surgery; be very, very careful and you should probably update your
>backup first!
You could also just use a tool fit for the job, like Norton's DiskEdit.
Mangled filenames are very easy to fix with its directory editor.
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