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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.                     --- FMail/Win32 1.62.GPL        * Origin: Amiga Offline BBS Lisse (2:280/464)    |
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