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   Wilfred van Velzen to Jerry Schwartz   
   Re: File Names   
   27 Nov 10 13:11:40   
   
   Hi,   
      
   On 25 Nov 10 09:21, Jerry Schwartz wrote to Ken Johnson:   
     about: "File Names":   
      
    JS> I have one issue that needs to be considered: file names (at least in   
    JS> the Windows/DOS versions) are always upshifted.   
      
    JS> I'm not sure how this should be handled. Windows file names are   
    JS> case-insensitive (unless you use the Posix API), but *nix file names are   
    JS> case-sensitive.   
      
    JS> Preserving the case of the file name would mean that "file1" and "File1"   
    JS> are two different files to a *nix system, but are the same file to a   
    JS> Windows system.   
      
    JS> At first blush I think that preserving the existing convention (always   
    JS> upshift) is the best way to keep things straight.   
      
   For linux and linux compatibility (on mixed configurations (like mine)),   
   lowercase should be the default and prefered way!   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
      
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