File names displayed with random cases.

[Larry Hoover]

On 09/11/11 9:37 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kenneth Brody"<kenbrody at spamcop.net>
>> 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.
>> [...]
> Windows filesystems are case-preserving but case-insensitive; Samba is also
> case-preserving.  So the case you're seeing is the case that was used to
> create the file, though on the Unix side, any case will do, to paraphrase
> Joseph.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
SCO Unix side shows:

drwxrwxrwx   3 root     root         512 Jun  7 16:59 JavaScript
drwxrwxrwx   4 root     sys          512 Jan 29  2010 anglers
drwxrwxrwx   7 root     root         512 Feb  3  2011 capemayss
drwxrwxrwx   4 filepro  root         512 Aug 12  2009 delmarva
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys         1024 Mar 22  2010 henryweb
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Jun  6 18:51 hhn
drwxr-xr-x   9 root     sys          512 Feb  3  2011 lehigh
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     sys          512 Jun  6 18:52 stamp
drwxr-xr-x   5 root     root         512 Aug 12  2009 transcontainer

Windows side (Notepad++, Filezilla, etc.) shows:

Open:
ANGLERS
capemayss
DELMARVA
HENRYWEB
HHN
JavaScript
LEHIGH
STAMP
transcontainer

Note the randomness in the case.  JavaScript is correct upper and lower, 
capemayss and transcontainer are OK lower, the rest show all caps.
Any rhyme or reason to this?