Re: [h-e-w] Re: printing on W2K Pro

[Dr Francis J. Wright]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
> "Kirkby, Peter M" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Windows of all flavours is a case-preserving/case-insensitive platform.
> 
> Well, it tries to be.
> 
> > It also usually lies to you about the case of the filename, you get
> > a capital first letter with the rest as lower case by default. Some
> > windows flavours may give you other presentation options.
> 
> Which means it is _not_ case-preserving!

I think it is the kernel file system that is
case-preserving/case-insensitive.  Applications can do what they want. 
By default, Emacs (and other ports from UNIX) shows you what is really
there whereas Explorer capitalizes.  But IIRC all versions of Explorer
that I have used (on Windows 95, 98 and NT) can be configured to display
filenames as they really are.  The option does not have the most obvious
name; I think it's the one relating to showing all capitals that needs
to be changed from its default value.

Francis