Re: Stupid Question but don't know the answer.

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From: Jason Stokes
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 00:00

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In article <368ED0BD.A1F7705A@intech.net.au>, Terry Nelson
<terry.nelson@intech.net.au> wrote:

>The problem with the not seeing gifs is probably the CD.  Although APC
>include Linux stuff on their CD they haven't quite worked out that
>*nix file names are case sensitive (unlike wintendos) and a lot of the
>links point to a file that is actually a different case.  Eg
>DEFAULT.HTM intead of default.htm.  I have been meaning to complain
>about this but haven't got around to it yet :-)

Aha.  That problem is easy to solve now, then.  Mount the CD with the
command

mount -check=r /mnt/cdrom

This forces "relaxed" mode, which is case insensitive.  This only works
with certain DOS based CD-ROM filesystems, though, not all of them.

-- 
Jason Stokes: jstok@bluedog.apana.org.au

 Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because
 it is wrong.

 E O Wilson, "Consilience".

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