File names displayed with random cases.

[Kenneth Brody]

On 9/10/2011 3:30 AM, Larry Hoover wrote:
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...

And you didn't post anything in plain text, so your posting was basically 
empty.  However, for some reason, I took the effort to extract the text from 
the web copy of the HTML part:

> Does anyone know why some programs display Unix/Linux file name cases
> randomly, where some files will show as uppercase and others as lowercase?
> There seems to be no distinction due to extension.  An example would be
> while browsing/exploring your PC into a mapped Unix drive, as you browse
> you will see some directories as uppercase, others as lowercase, and the
> same thing with file names.  They can be mixed in the same directory.  This
> causes problems when you are transferring files with Filezilla or other
> Windows based programs from Win to Unix.

I assume you mean that, from the Windows side, you are seeing the Unix 
filenames with "random" cases?  (As opposed to what the first sentence seems 
to imply -- that Unix is "randomly" showing incorrect filenames.)

I am also going to assume that this "random" case is consistent for any 
given Unix filename?  (ie: you don't see "Foobar.txt" in the morning, and 
"FooBar.txt" in the afternoon.)

Can you give some specific examples of the actual Unix filename and the name 
as you see it on Windows?

Remember, Windows is case-insensitive, so "Foobar.txt", "FOOBAR.TXT", and 
"FoBaR.TxT" are all the same filename.  I have seen times when Windows tries 
to be "helpful" if the filename is in ALL CAPS, and shows you Mixed Caps, so 
"FOOBAR.TXT" might be shown as "Foobar.txt". Could that be the case here?

-- 
Kenneth Brody