Subj : File Names
To   : Jerry Schwartz
From : Ken Johnson
Date : Mon Nov 29 2010 10:26:38

Hello Jerry.

25 Nov 10 09:21, you wrote to me:

KJ> Hello, Ken...
KJ>
KJ> I have one issue that needs to be considered: file names (at least in the
KJ> Windows/DOS versions) are always upshifted.
KJ>
KJ> I'm not sure how this should be handled. Windows file names are
KJ> case-insensitive (unless you use the Posix API), but *nix file names are
KJ> case-sensitive.
KJ>
KJ> Preserving the case of the file name would mean that "file1" and "File1"
KJ> are two different files to a *nix system, but are the same file to a
KJ> Windows system.
KJ>
KJ> At first blush I think that preserving the existing convention (always
KJ> upshift) is the best way to keep things straight.
KJ>
KJ> Regards,
KJ>
KJ> Jerry Schwartz
KJ>
KJ> mailto:jerryschwartz@comfortable.com
KJ> http://www.writebynight.com
KJ>
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Yes, the filenameing convention is one of the priorities that I am looking at.
I was originally thinking of changing all names to lower, as this would be 
easier to deal with when porting to Linux. Windows would handle it, and DOS 
makes everything upper, so when reading in the filenames, would just process 
them as if they are lower. Have  a bit of testing still to do here before I do 
the commit of it.


Ken

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