Re: "No-Uppercase" problem with CDROM is AIX 4.3.3

From: Dale Talcott (aeh_at_quest.cc.purdue.edu)
Date: 07/31/03


Date: 31 Jul 03 10:28:37 EST


"Fil" <p.hery@free.fr> writes:

>For an SAP installation, we've got problems with CDROM (original SAP CDs !).
>We mount the CD with "mount /cdrom" as usual.
...
>All the files are in lowercase and we must copy the CD on hard-drive, rename
>files (in uppercase) to suceed in the installation.

>Do you have any idea ? Is there any invible option for the mount command ?

Mount has both a "nocase" and an "upcase" option you might try. The
last time I needed this, I think upcase performed as advertised (all
names converted to uppercase). Nocase did not work, so I ended up
mounting the CD on my Mac and NFS exporting that to the AIX box, which
did work.

-- 
Dale Talcott, IT Research Computing Services, Purdue University
aeh@quest.cc.purdue.edu         http://quest.cc.purdue.edu/~aeh/


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