File names displayed with random cases.

[Larry Hoover]

On 09/15/11 11:54 AM, Larry Hoover wrote:
> 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
>
>
Ken-  Your insight into 8.3 format at least gives me a workaround to 
solve my problem:
all my html files will be named <name>.html vs >name>.htm and they will 
stay case sensitive since the .html has 4 digits.
all my .css files will have at least nine characters in the name.
Now filezilla will transfer them correctly to the servers.

Thanks for your help!!
Larry