Is there any solution beyond renaming the files or changing to a case
insensitive FS?

Maybe, in the next (server) patch, HL could have the option to be forced
only to search for lowercase files, no matter what? This would solve a lot
of problems with map resources.

Jeroen "ShadowLord" Bogers
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Leon Hartwig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 21:41
Subject: RE: [hlds_apps] PAK file bug?


> When the engine searches a .pak for a file, it is a case insensitive
search.
> As has been pointed out, Linux FS access is case sensitive.  You'd have to
> manually rename everything after extracting from the .pak, but even then
> it's not guaranteed to work how you want it because a file might be
> referenced differently by different bsps or different places in the game
> dll.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: botman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 12:15 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [hlds_apps] PAK file bug?
> >
> >
> > > hlpakextract (my own tool :)
> > >
> > > It preserves case... I even checked the pak file itself with a hex
> > > editor...
> > > Lower case names.
> >
> > If all the files within the .pak file are actually lowercase then
> > you would
> > need to rename the files manually (or create a Linux file system that is
> > case insensitive, which might be easier :).
> >
> > Jeffrey "botman" Broome
> >
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