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ADIR() Mixed case please...
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02/11/2000 17:02:02
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
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00436894
Message ID:
00437417
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18
>>>Since the Win platform is case-insensitive AFA filenames, I don't see what the issue is IAC, but people will complsin about whatever solution they're provided...
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>>One problem is cross-platform support - I ran into the problem in transferring files through a system that had case sensitive filenames, no problem getting them there, but getting them back was a problem as the names no longer matched.
>
>Use the wrong tool, get the wrong results...

Yeah, bad mistake using VfP - need to use something not produced by Microsoft to get the right results - I should have learned after all these years of using MS stuff that you just shouldn't expect their tools to be suitable for their own operating system.
Mike

"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong." - Richard Feynman
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