Subject: Re: W2K/XP fncase [was Re: New perl package]
From: Tim Van Holder <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
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On Fri, 2001-10-12 at 08:31, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> > Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 21:57:29 -0500 (CDT)
> > 
> > W2K:
> > short: TEST. long: test
> > short: _67C0CVS. long: _.CVS
> > Fixpath: c:/test/_.CVS
> 
> Good God!

Was this on a FAT32 or NTFS filesystem (the 'c:' suggests the latter)?
Since NTFS does not store a short name, that might make a difference.
Also, what do you get for actual long names?

  touch averylongfilename1 averylongfilename2 averylongfilename3
  fixpath averylongfilename1 averylongfilename2 averylongfilename3

> If we cannot find a way to fix this, I agree that we should simply
> bypass those calls on XP and behave as if FNCASE were set to y.

Fair enough - after all, the only reason we have FNCASE at all is to
avoid seeing DOS names as all-uppercase, right?  And XP users are
unlikely to have many FAT32 partitions where that problem could show up.