Re: Case problems and file permissions on Make

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Omar Al-Kaisy wrote:

> But none of my filenames are too long for DOS to handle anyway.

All DOS system calls up-case file names, and the DOS emulator that is 
part of Windows NT doesn't bother to downcase them when it writes the 
file names to disk.  So you get UPER-CASE file names.

> Would there be no way to avoid this problem I'm having?

Not with a DOS port of Make, not unless you use a different version of 
Windows.

> Is there a version I could obtain which would NOT upcase?

Get a native Windows port of Make.  Unfortunately, I don't have a URL, 
but perhaps someone else on this list will.