problems with lowercase and uppercase characters in filenames

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Wed Jul 9 06:32:46 EDT 2008


Hi Matthias,

I don't think that common Windows file systems are case sensitive. Are  
you able to use case sensitive file paths on the same machine with  
other software?.

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On 9 jul 2008, at 12:27, runrev260805 at m-r-d.de wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> i ran into a problem with case sensity writing 2 files ("c:/ 
> Test.txt" and "c:/test.txt") under Windows wit Rev Studio 2.9.
>
> Only the first file is created. The content for the second file is  
> written to the first file.
>
> Is Rev not aware of lower/uppercase filenams?
>
> Tried the following script, which should do it, but it doesn´t
>
>
> ON mouseUp pMouseBtnNo
>    open file "c:/Test.txt" FOR write
>    write "text for the uppercase file" to file "c:/Test.txt"
>    close file "c:/Test.txt"
>
>    open file "c:/test.txt" FOR write
> -- this command reopens the file "c:/TEST.txt" instead of creating a  
> new one with the lowercase filename
>    write "text for the lowercase file" to file "c:/test.txt"
>    close file "c:/test.txt"
> End mouseUp
>
> So where is my mistake?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Matthias




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