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> From: Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 17:19:09 +0200
> 
> I think that I could add:
> 
> 2bis) else, if the file name is all upcase, upcase the builtin file name
>       suffixes and retry

It would probably be better to apply a bit more fine checks to the
file name.  For example, I suspect that only file names that fit into
the DOS 8+3 limitations are upcased like that.  Stavros, can you
confirm that in your case?