Case senitivity is an issue when sharing files between the UnixWare envionment and the DOS enviroment.
There needs to be a method which allows the UnixWare files "expenses.dat" and "Expenses.dat" to be copied onto the DOS system and still be two seperate files.
In fact, the names are vtranslated to keep the filenames unique in the DOS enironment. If possible the first 4 letters are retained, and if necessary the last 4 are adjusted according to the inode value.
A UnixWare command "mapfname" will perform this translation outside of DOS - useful for class databases.
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