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   Mike Powell to All   
   DOSBOX-X and lowercase filenames   
   22 Mar 25 14:05:56   
   
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   BBSID: CAPCITY2   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   Good afternoon,   
   I am running a DOS BBS system under DOSBOX-X.  When the DOS tosser (squish)   
   creates the *.flo files, it is writing the filename out to the flo in   
   lowercase.  However, DOSBOX-X is saving the mail archives to the host OS system   
   (linux) in UPPERCASE.   
      
   When binkd (on linux) tries an action on the flo file, it does not find the   
   matching dataset name and deletes the flo file without sending the mail.   
      
   I have done some research and it sounds like the DOSBOX dev team believes that   
   writing in UPPERCASE is not a bug because DOS w/o LFN support only supports   
   UPPERCASE.   
      
   I have tried turning on LFN support and changing a couple of other settings but   
   none of them cause DOSBOX-X to write the dataset names to the host OS system in   
   lowercase.   
      
   Does anyone know if there is a trick to get DOSBOX-X to write files to linux   
   with lowercase names?   
      
   Is there a way to use the "ftrans" in the binkd.cfg file to cause it to ignore   
   the filename case that it finds in the flo files?   
      
   Couple of quick notes... I am using DOSBOX-X over dosemu because the BBS   
   software developer does not support dosemu because he doesn't use linux, and I   
   am using squish because the BBS software FTN "shim" program doesn't work with   
   crashmail.   
      
   Thanks!   
      
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