Uppercase/Lowercase file Names

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Hello Everyone

The network at work runs NT4 and Off 97. Some files, when viewed in Explorer, have all uppercase letters and some have the initial letter uppercase and the rest lowercase. Some users would like to name a file so that all letters are uppercase, but it ends up as Initial capital and the rest lower. How are file names able to be entered as all uppercase?

Thanks in advance

Farside

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NT won’t do this natively – you’ll need to install Internet Explorer 4’s Desktop Update. Later versions will not add the Desktop Update, so IE4 is a requirement. You should be able to find it at http://browsers.evolt.org[/url%5D.

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Thanks Mark. Hadn’t even considered that one!!

Farside

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This may not apply to WinNT, but just in case.

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It applies, certainly – but only after you install the desktop update in IE4. We’re all so used to these things now (Quick Launch, etc) it’s easy to forget that Internet Explorer is the enabling technology behind them.

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I saw this post, and couldn’t help but jump in… I’ve wondered for quite some time how the use of Upper/Lower case is determined.

On a clean install of Win98SE, some of the files are all lower case, some are mixed case, some are upper…

Who or what makes this determination, and why or on what basis?

Chuck Billow

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I think it depends completely on who coded the installation of a given program. If you install ProgramX on your computer, and the installation program says the folder will be called C:Program FilesPROGRAMX, then you end up with all upper case letters for that folder.

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That sounds correct – or if you’re creating the folder yourself, you can change the case of the directory when you do it. Since Windows (unlike Unix.Linux) isn’t case sensitive, you should be able to change it by hnad if you don’t like the appearance of the name.

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So that, even within Microsoft, there’s no order or reason to case usage (checking out the Windows directory)? Or for that matter, use of long filenames as opposed to 8.3?

Chuck Billow

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There are some interesting thoughts here. The name, and hence the personal choice of upper/lower case text of the folder on an install seems logical, but what is confusing is the mixing on the same drive of folder names which are a mix of UPPERCASE and Lowercase (initial letter capital). I do like R2’s ‘Allow all uppercase names’, and will check all users settings on Monday.

I’m on a mission!!

Thanks

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Tried R2’s solution this morning and it worked!. Interestingly, once the user had ticked the box, all other folders that had been showing lowercase (but had been typed as uppercase) changed to uppercase. Does that make sense?

Thanks for everyone’s input.

Farside

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