Re: Use of tar-1.12.msdos.exe

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:05:11 +1000
> 
> The tar program seemed to preserve directories starting in UPPERcase but
> not when the directory was in full UPPERcase. Fro example,
> 
> XML on W2K was created as xml on AIX
> 
> but
> 
> Instbase was created correctly as InstBase
> 
> and all lower case directories were created correctly.
> 
> Has this been observed elsewhere?

Yes.  It's a feature.  (Hint: file names on DOS FAT disks are stored
in all-uppercase form.)

> Is there a workaround?

Yes.  Download the latest port of Tar from here:

  ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/tar112ab.zip

and then set FNCASE=y in the environment before running this port of
Tar on the W2K machine.  Then the lettercase of the file names on
Windows will be 100% preserved.