Casing in filesystems

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Mon Mar 12 16:03:09 UTC 2001



Duane T Williams wrote:
> 
> At 12:17 PM +0100 3/12/2001, Karl Ramberg wrote:
> >If uppercase and unix/linux tell user to manualy change extension casing.
> >Change casing for everybody else.
> 
> Why is the case being changed at all?  Simply require that the name be
> given to the program just as it is spelled in the filesystem, whatever that
> is.  What's wrong with that?

This is a workaround for a bug in the MPEGPlugin. It fails when
it gets a file with a uppercase extension, fx. .Mpg or .MPEG etc.
At least on Mac OS. 
Karl





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