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  From: Toby Corkindale <tjcorkin@steadycom.com.au>
  To  : Richard Russell <richard@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
  Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 05:10:23 +0000

Re: Corel WP and APC Mag.

Richard Russell wrote:
> 
> Robert Wuttke wrote:
> >
> > Instead on grumbling, someone write them a script, send it to them, maybe
> > they will use it and put your name in the magazine.
> >
> > Give it the Linux touch, that is everyone helps everyone.
> >
> > Please note this is not stated in a mean or nasty way, so no flame wars,
> > pleeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaase!
> >
> 
> I would be happy to do it if:
> 
> a) I had the time
> b) I was any good at writing scripts
> 
> Unfortunately, neither of those is true, so I won't be writing one. :)
> 
> On a related note, I'd be interested to know which (if any) of the HTML
> editors (the WYSIWYG ones) create case-sensitive web pages... Anyone
> know? Is this something that should be brought to the attention of the
> tool-makers?
I believe that creating case-sensitive links is the 'correct' way as far
as WWW and html go.
The problem occurs when you have different interpretations of the
filesystem.
(And I believe that the win95 method of automatically showing filenames
as always having a capital first letter is probably the party in the
wrong. Gee, that was unexpected ;)
However, a bit of manipulation with the file mounting options might help
you out.
If that fails, it shouldn't be too hard to modify the joliet/vfat
modules to have an extra option to convert Aaaaaaaaaa filenames to
aaaaaaaaaaa. (if it doesn't already exist.)

Failing that, or if it's too much effort, you could always make a script
that goes thru and makes a copy of the cd tree, and populates with
symbolic links, giving the symbolic links all lowercase names where
appropriate.

Seeyas
Toby

> 
> rr
> 
> > Rob Wuttke.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Russell <richard@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
> > To: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
> > Date: Tuesday, 23 March 1999 12:47
> > Subject: Re: Corel WP and APC Mag.
> >
> > >Darryl Ross wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hey There,
> > >>
> > >> I have got it up and running. The first thing I noticed about the CD is
> > that
> > >> the directory and file names are all lowercase, while the HTML files on
> > the
> > >> CD they have put capital letters in for the first characters. Not a
> > problem
> > >> in Win95, but it *is* in Linux. When you click on the link, and the
> > address
> > >> bar thingo shows the new address, if there is any capitals in the name,
> > >> change them to lowercase letters and it should work fine.
> > >
> > >the APC CD has had this problem for a long time -- I have emailed them
> > >about it previously, but got no response, and saw no change. Surely it
> > >can't be hard for them to sort this out... I assume they are using some
> > >sort of WYSIWYG editor, and not editing source code manually, and their
> > >tool is probably designed for Windows, so it is probably causing the
> > >problems, but even so, I'm sure that they could write a script to change
> > >all links to lowercase, or even do some actual cross-checking with the
> > >filesystem... Maybe if we all wrote to them, they'd fix it...  Anyway,
> > >that's my grumble for today... :)
> > >
> > >rr
> >
> > [snip]
> 
> --
> Richard Russell
> richard@cs.adelaide.edu.au
> --
> Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question and the answer is
> no.
> 
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