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Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago (2 children)

remember when windows could only handle 8 characters and longer names ended in ~1

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago

To be precise, longer names ending with ~1 are a backwards compatible fix for DOS programs introduced after Windows started supporting longer filenames.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

No because that's not a thing in the way you've described it