Re: Archive files with upper case file names

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:23:17 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> I agree that the lists should be sync'd; however, when do people
> actually use upper-case extensions for these files?

One common situation is this: one copies files via a floppy formatted
with the old DOS FAT16 filesystem.  (That filesystem stored all file
names UPCASED.)  If the copy command isn't smart enough to downcase
the file names on the destination side, you get FOO.ZIP.  This happens
a lot on Windows, but could also happen on GNU and Unix systems (e.g.,
I think some versions of Mtools didn't downcase file names).