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From: "deckerben" <bdeck AT lycos DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: dirent->d_name returns lowercase?
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 12:28:09 +0200
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:1659-Sat28Jun2003085113+0300-eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il...
> > From: "deckerben" <bdeck AT lycos DOT co DOT uk>
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 00:23:11 +0200
> > > That's because your DIR command goes to the shell which is a Windows
> > > program, as opposed to DJGPP programs which are DOS programs.  You
> > > really should keep that in mind when you argue about these subtleties.
> >
> > 'ls.exe' is a DOS program, right? Note the output (without FNCASE set):
> >
> > D:\>set FNCASE=n
> > D:\>ls -al
> > total 1617
> > drwxr-xr-x   17 bdeck    root          608 Jun 17 01:13 .
> > drwxr-xr-x   17 bdeck    root          608 Jun 17 01:13 ..
> > -rw-r--r--    1 bdeck    root       708836 Jun 16 01:10 Citizenship
docs1.zip
>
> This isn't NT, it probably is Windows 2000 or XP.  Windows NT doesn't
> support long file names at all, so the only way you could see the
> above is if you have NTLFN installed on that system.


PythonD doesn't run on a configuration that doesn't support long filenames
anyhow. It's special :-)


Ben


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