File names displayed with random cases.

[Kenneth Brody]

On 9/15/2011 11:18 AM, Larry Hoover wrote:
> On 09/15/11 11:06 AM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>> On 9/15/2011 10:51 AM, Larry Hoover wrote:
>> [...]
>>> SCO Unix side shows:
[...]
>>> Windows side (Notepad++, Filezilla, etc.) shows:
>>>
>>> Open:
>>> ANGLERS
>>> capemayss
>>> DELMARVA
>>> HENRYWEB
>>> HHN
>>> JavaScript
>>> LEHIGH
>>> STAMP
>>> transcontainer
[...]
>> I immediately see why some (all lowercase) filenames are converted to all
>> uppercase, while others aren't. What do all the all-uppercase names have in
>> common that distinguish them from those that remain all lowercase? (Hint:
>> think MS-DOS.)
>>
> They are longer than 8 characters?

More specifically, I'm thinking that they fit into 8.3 names.

> FooBar becomes FOOBAR and
> FoooBarrLong stays FoooBarrLong

Which makes me wonder... What if you have "foobar" and "FooBar" in the same 
directory?

> Right now I'm looking for some setting in Windows that sets case sensitivity.

Windows never was, and probably never will be, case sensitive.

What you want is something either in Windows or Samba that says "stop trying 
to help me, and leave those Unix filenames alone!!!"

-- 
Kenneth Brody