File names displayed with random cases.

[Kenneth Brody]

On 9/11/2011 3:48 AM, Larry Hoover wrote:
> Thanks, Ken, I appreciate you taking the time. Funny, I have my Thunderbird
> settings to go to plain text on celestial.com. Hmm.
>
> What I mean by random case is in the same directory listing it will show:
>
> calendar-style.css
> HHN.CSS
> TARFILE
> hhn.html
> HHN.PHP
> abc.php

But, what does the *nix box show for those filenames?

> I can rename the file to lower case and it will immediately convert it to
> uppercase in the Windows display but when I check on my Unix listing it is
> still lower case.
>
> I have noticed this for years and never cared, but when Filezilla transfers
> a file it converts it to the wrong case.
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Kenneth Brody