File names displayed with random cases.

[Larry Hoover]

On 09/15/11 11:46 AM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> 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!!!"
>

With foobar and FooBar, Windows shows two FOOBAR files.

There's another status called "Case Preserving"

Here's a website that clearly tells how to make Windows file systems 
case sensitive.  I tried it and found the parameter and changed it, but 
it didn't seem to work:  http://www.chilkatsoft.com/p/p_454.asp