Comments on: How to make file names cross-platform http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2005/11/17/maximizing-filesystem-portability/ Stay curious! Mon, 13 May 2013 05:55:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Richard Forster http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2005/11/17/maximizing-filesystem-portability/#comment-4753 Richard Forster Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:41:53 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=39#comment-4753 To avoid the problem of having file names from FAT32 partitions translated to lower case by Linux specify ‘shortname=mixed’ either on the mount command or in the /etc/fstab configuration file. As an example, here is the entry in /etc/fstab for a FAT32 partition.

/dev/hda5 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0,iocharset=utf8,check=r,shortname=mixed 0 0
]]> By: Anonymous http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2005/11/17/maximizing-filesystem-portability/#comment-3375 Anonymous Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:44:52 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=39#comment-3375 If you want to create cross platform applications you need to treat file names as case sensitive. If you read “file.txt” on windows you’ll read it even if it’s name is “File.txt”. But on *nix you won’t find that file.

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2005/11/17/maximizing-filesystem-portability/#comment-2083 Xaprb Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:21:44 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=39#comment-2083 Windows XP is pretty restrictive on filenames, so I imagine you’re OK. I’d just test it before you send it away. Surely you have a friend with a Mac?

]]> By: Tawny Davis http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2005/11/17/maximizing-filesystem-portability/#comment-2078 Tawny Davis Tue, 03 Oct 2006 19:07:02 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=39#comment-2078 I have a question and I am not quite sure if this article answers it…. In order to submit my portfolio with my college application, it must be on a mac compatible (cross platform) cd-rom… and I am not quite sure how to do that… Is there something special that I need to do since I have Windows XP? Please respond! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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