1. Lower case filenames?
Hi,
I need to write text files with lower case names, but everything I have tried
produces an all upper case filename. Anyone care to share the secret?
John
2. Re: Lower case filenames?
- Posted by "Kat" <kat12 at coosahs.net>
Oct 01, 2006
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Last edited Oct 02, 2006
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> posted by: John <stracoth at yahoo.com>
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> Hi,
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> I need to write text files with lower case names, but everything I
> have tried produces an all upper case filename. Anyone care to share
> the secret?
There is a setting for folders/harddrives in windows and in nix, but i
looked for an hour, and cannot find it. I remember setting it once in
windows. I don't have a nix box to locate it, and i assume you don't
mean you are using Mac OS, TRS-80, a CM, a PIC or AVR, or
CBM.
Kat
3. Re: Lower case filenames?
- Posted by "Greg Haberek" <ghaberek at gmail.com>
Oct 01, 2006
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Last edited Oct 02, 2006
> I need to write text files with lower case names, but everything I have tried
> produces an all upper case filename. Anyone care to share the secret?
Are you using the DOS32 interpreter, ex.exe? Or perhaps ed.ex as your
editor? If so, then that's your answer. Use exw.exe or exwc.exe
(console version) for WIN32 and you will not have this issue.
~Greg
4. Re: Lower case filenames?
- Posted by John <stracoth at yahoo.com>
Oct 01, 2006
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Last edited Oct 02, 2006
Thanks for the responses, Kat and Greg.
Using exwc.exe solved the problem. Guess I can stop the rewrite in VB. :)
John
5. Re: Lower case filenames?
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 16:54:05 -0500, Kat <kat12 at coosahs.net> wrote:
>There is a setting for folders/harddrives in windows and in nix, but i
>looked for an hour, and cannot find it.
Just for Kat's info:
Are you thinking of (under win98): Start Explorer, Tools, Folder
Options, View; first option (here) is "Allow all uppercase filenames"?
I know John seems happy to use exwc.exe, and that technically, this
option does not really change anything, just makes Explorer display eg
"AUTOEXEC.BAT" as "Autoexec.bat".
One other thing John may wish to consider is Juergen's lfn module:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=Juergen
(DOS Long Filenames) - don't know if it will help, don't know if it is
relevant any more, don't even personally know if it works ;-p)
Regards,
Pete
6. Re: Lower case filenames?
- Posted by "Kat" <kat12 at coosahs.net>
Oct 02, 2006
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Last edited Oct 03, 2006
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> On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 16:54:05 -0500, Kat <kat12 at coosahs.net> wrote:
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> >There is a setting for folders/harddrives in windows and in nix, but
> >i looked for an hour, and cannot find it.
> Just for Kat's info:
> Are you thinking of (under win98): Start Explorer, Tools, Folder
> Options, View; first option (here) is "Allow all uppercase filenames"?
Yes. I could have sworn i saw it in winxp too, but it may have been
in some harddrive setup for fat32.
Well, he did say he was trying to save a text file, not save an Eu
source/program .e/.ew/.etc file. I assumed his Eu program was
writing a .txt file and he couldn't open the file of the same
capitalisation. I dunno now.
Kat
7. Re: Lower case filenames?
- Posted by John <stracoth at yahoo.com>
Oct 02, 2006
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Last edited Oct 03, 2006
> > Are you thinking of (under win98): Start Explorer, Tools, Folder
> > Options, View; first option (here) is "Allow all uppercase filenames"?
>
> Yes. I could have sworn i saw it in winxp too, but it may have been
> in some harddrive setup for fat32.
>
> Well, he did say he was trying to save a text file, not save an Eu
> source/program .e/.ew/.etc file. I assumed his Eu program was
> writing a .txt file and he couldn't open the file of the same
> capitalisation. I dunno now.
>
> Kat
>
I believe you are correct, Kat. The Windows UI tweaker I use says the option
exists in WinXP.
In my case, I wrote a text filter that was called by another program which
could only "see" output files with all lower case filenames--first time I've
seen that in Windows.
Anyway, my thanks to all for their help.
John
