File names displayed with random cases.

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Sep 16 11:35:16 PDT 2011


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Hoover" <larry at hoovercs.com>

> 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.

Note that there's possibly even another thing going on here: The 8.3 filename
and the "long filename" on Win32s machines are stored separately, and might 
have different case, even on the Windows box; can't say if that's deterministic
or not.

Cheers,
-- jra
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