Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
On 7/16/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To clarify -again-, the case of the name is determined by the case of
the name in the filesystem. The case of the drive is arbitrarily chosen
but must be one or another.
Not true, AFAICT. The MSVC run-time can and does report c:\ or C:\.
FWIW, the MSDN documentation for GetFullPathName() never refers to
this case-sensitivity. In fact, the MSDN docs refer to it as c:\ - so
where does having the drive-letter be capitalized come from again? --
Comparisons. Deny "C:/" pattern. Now, are we going to catch "c:/"?
If we get TRUECASE of the pattern and the path, they must match if same
or mismatch if different. Case insensitive test is not sufficient since
that's a whopping 96 codepage points out of 64k in unicode.
So we can pick force-upper or pick force lower. Picking neither is not
an option.
Uppercase comes from ancient history in DOS roots, where the physical
device name is upper case.
Bill
