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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 11:28:51 +1000
From: Joshua Cannon Butcher <lchandar AT mindspring DOT com>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: LFN woes (again)
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure how ugly it is. This is how OS2 works; it have most
> > system files in uppercase, but some in lowercase.
> 
> Then IBM did better job then Microsoft.  On Windows 95, even the system
> directories (DOS and Windows) have *ALL* of their files uppercased!  If
> you copy a file from a DOS diskette, by default it gets only DOS-style
> uppercase name, unless you specifically give it the destination >pathname

That is not entirely true.  If you create a file on a DOS diskette with
Windows95 and the file name is lower case, then when you copy it with
xomething like XCOPY(32) it will be lower case as well.  It all depends
on what the original file was.  I think that makes sense.  If the
original file name is all lowercase, then the destination file is the
same unless specified.  THAT IS CALLED BEING CONSISTANT.  

Joshua