Date   : Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:40:28 +0000
From   : Tim Fardell <tim.fardell@...>
Subject: Re: Grammar

Jules Richardson wrote:
> Windows 95 I seem to remember is case insensitive, but tends to capitalise the 
> first letter of filenames and make the rest lowercase at display time (which 
> was *really* annoying!). 

It only did this if the filename was "8.3-compatible", and only affected 
display in Windows Explorer - the capitalisation was retained at the filesystem 
level. Filenames that would have been illegal under MS-DOS retained their 
capitalisation in Explorer's display.

> NTFS I believe preserves case at the filesystem 
> level, but not for most interface operations.

As does FAT.