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Re: upper/lower case question




>Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 08:01:08 -0700 (PDT)
>From: John Mamer <jmamer@anderson.ucla.edu>
>To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: upper/lower case question
>
---snip---
>
>I've gotten a bunch of suggestions for how to unzip them in
>lower case.  I'm still curious why "cp FILENAME filename"
>doesn't work.  I thought maybe I'd set one of the parameters
>wrong in the mount command........
>
---snip---

The reason "cp FILENAME filename" is because to the root filesystem 
(MSDOS) they are the same file and you can't copy a file onto itself.

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