Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 15:41:53 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Alexander V. Lukyanov" <lav AT video DOT yars DOT free DOT net>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: LFN woes (again)
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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 
in lower case, like so:

	xcopy a:\myfile.ext myfile.ext

They should have got this the other way around: make lower-case the
default, and if somebody wants upper-case, let them say so loud and
clear.  Seems like Microsoft once again stopped one step short of making 
The Right Thing...

> OTOH, the windows explorer downcases at least some filenames.
> I'd suggest to deal with LFN like the explorer does.

That's exactly what I have in mind.  However Win95 Explorer doesn't 
downcase the names, it capitalizes them!  Filenames that only have a 
DOS-style uppercase name are displayed with the capital first letter, and 
the rest is downcased.  That is certainly NOT what I think we should do.