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On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:05:56 -0500
"Mike Powell" (1:2320/105)  wrote:

> 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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Have you tried

[dosbox]
lower_case_filesystem = true

in your dosbox-x.conf file?
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