[h-e-w] Re: Case-sensitivity of filenames under NT, in VC

[Andre Spiegel]

On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 07:00, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Try this:
> 
>       (case-fold-search (not (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt))))

I hesitate to install this.  Wouldn't it be a cleaner solution if Emacs
always used the real filenames internally, and not a down-cased
version?  What is the rationale for that?

If this can't be avoided, then is it always guaranteed that filenames
are case-insensitive under DOS/NT?  Couldn't you "mount" a Unix
filesystem and have case-sensitive filenames there?  What if DOS/NT
changes so that filenames become case-sensitive there, too?  Or,
alternatively, aren't there other architectures (e.g. VMS) where
filenames are case-insensitive as well?

To sum up, the above solution looks like a hack to me and I'd rather
look for something cleaner.  Any ideas?