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 Message 617 
 Jerry Schwartz to Ken Johnson 
 File Names 
 25 Nov 10 09:21:14 
 
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 
ase-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@comfortable.com
http://www.writebynight.com

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