TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: allfix_help
to: Ken Johnson
from: Jerry Schwartz
date: 2010-11-25 09:21:14
subject: File Names

Hello, Ken...

I have one issue that needs to be considered: file names (at least in the
Windows/DOS versions) are always upshifted.

I'm not sure how this should be handled. Windows file names are
case-insensitive (unless you use the Posix API), but *nix file names are
case-sensitive.

Preserving the case of the file name would mean that "file1" and
"File1" are two different files to a *nix system, but are the
same file to a Windows system.

At first blush I think that preserving the existing convention (always
upshift) is the best way to keep things straight.

Regards,

Jerry Schwartz

mailto:jerryschwartz{at}comfortable.com
http://www.writebynight.com

--- Msged/NT 6.0.1
* Origin: Write by Night (1:142/928)
SEEN-BY: 10/1 11/200 203 331 14/250 400 34/999 120/228 123/500 128/2 187
SEEN-BY: 138/146 140/1 222/2 226/0 230/150 250/1 306 261/20 38 100 1381 1404
SEEN-BY: 261/1411 1418 266/1413 280/1027 320/119 396/45 633/104 260 267 285
SEEN-BY: 690/682 712/848 800/432 801/161 189 5030/1256
@PATH: 142/928 320/119 261/38 633/260 267

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.