Re: the case of the sudden caps-OT

WS-FTP has an option where the name of every uploaded file can be changed to
lower case.
This saves time for me as I always use lower case for filenames, and this
option fixes it for me if I forget.
howardm




----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Coats <lcoats(at)gte.net>
To: Noteworthy Web Designs <webmaster(at)noteworthydesigns.com>
Cc: HWG Techniques <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: the case of the sudden caps-OT


> Karen Stafford wrote:
>
> Noteworthy Web Designs wrote:
>
> > What would cause my file names on my hard drive to suddenly show up in
> > caps? I coverted all my web files to a CD-RW drive today (being new with
> > this, I had originally put them on a CD-R only and it wouldn't delete
> > any). Anyway, now I have some file names showing up in caps, and I never
> > put any file names in that way. Any ideas why? In WS_FTP, I had to go
> > thru and put some in lower case again before I could upload. Just a
> > mystery! I just want to know if I accidentally put a setting on the
> > CD-writer program that causes that or what. Thanks in advance!
>
> I'm afraid I can't shed much light on this, but I do know that there are
> some problems with windows changing names to all caps like this.
>
> I regularly copy files back and forth between my Win98 machine at home and
> my NT machine at work. I never have any problem taking files from Win98 to
> NT, but any all-lowercase files on the NT machine turn into all caps when
I
> copy them to the Win98 machine. On the zip disk, the NT machine shows the
> names as all lowercase while the Win98 machine shows them as all
uppercase.
>
> On a similar line, a lot of people find that their all-lowercase names
> change to all-uppercase when they FTP them.
>
> If anyone knows anything about why this happens, I'd sure like to know
about
> it. Especially if there's a way to make it stop happening!
>
> Larry Coats
>
>

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