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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) 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: 280/464 5003 2432/200 772/1 140/1 261/38 633/260 267 |
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