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to: Jerry Schwartz
from: Wilfred van Velzen
date: 2010-11-27 13:11:40
subject: Re: File Names

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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