Casing in filesystems

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Mon Mar 12 19:07:37 UTC 2001



John M McIntosh wrote:
> 
> >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
> 
> Ah, I'll fix the bug in the MPEGPlugin. I've some other changes
> pending here, one for transparency in Morphic for example, plus some
> performance tuning.

Sounds like a better fix than than my workaround :-)
Karl





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