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Remember: GNU/Linux and other UNIX systems can make files that are case-sensitive, Windows can't make files that are case-sensitive (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Windows and NTFS support case sensitive filenames. The functionality is disabled for compatibility reasons.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember the good old days of Windows MS-DOS where they had an 8 character filename limit lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

8.3, actually!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gotta go count my files again... oh yeah it's PROJE~14.BAS

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

haha that was so infuriating. if their intent was to bastardize the filename horribly to make it noticeable that you defied the DOS limitation, they certainly succeeded. Yuck, totally forgot about the ~1 thing!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Funnily enough you can have up to 65536 files in a directory in FAT, so you could technically end up with PR~65536.BAS

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