Ben Schmidt wrote:
> I mustn't have tried it for longer than I thought! Or perhaps
> Explorer is different, or an old version of Explorer is
> different, or something...

My vague recollection is that Windows has a mechanism to maintain the
case of an existing file name. Many apps save a file (say my.txt) by
writing to my.tmp (for example), then deleting my.txt, then renaming
my.tmp to my.txt. I think the file system caches file names for a short
period (even after deletion), so an attempt to write a file with a name
that is different only in case (say My.txt) will end up with the file
keeping the original name.

You would possible see this with a "save as" to a name that is different
only in case.

However, I think the renaming mechanisms (command prompt, Explorer, API)
have always just renamed exactly as requested.

John


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