Opens and Case-sensitivity

[reneeculver]

This is a comment and not a question.

Cutler of DEC (RSX and VMS)and later MS (NT) said that a case sensitive file system "would be built over over his dead body".

So what do we have? A case sensitive file system. Case sensitivity is stupid!!!!!!

Renee

[IanH]

You are posting in the windows forum, so I presume you are working on some version of Windows.

Unless you have explicitly done something to your windows installation(*) your file system is not case sensitive. They are typically case preserving - so the directory entry for a file will use the case of the name that the file was initially created with - but they are not case sensitive - subsequent operations to access the file can use the name in whatever case (or combination of cases) that they please.

Is your comment motivated by a particular issue?



* For example - if you were using the unix subsystem on NT, which is a relatively obscure thing to do.

[reneeculver]

Yes, Ian it is. My ifort code seem to be case sensite in the Filename.

OPEN (UNIT=2,FILE='ADVDAT.txt',STATUS='OLD',iostat = ioval)

If (ioval .ne. 0 ) then

print 1290,i0val

1290 format("ADVDAT.txt not present. Put in same dir as Adventure.exe")

c sleep

Stop

end if

I have to apologize because I am currently in the process of rewriting it...but that's most of it.

Renee

[Steven_L_Intel1]

No, it isn't. As Ian says, the Windows file system is case-insensitive but case-preserving. Just like VMS ODS-5.

What you are encountering is the way Visual Studio starts applications where it sets the "default directory" to be the project directory (the one with the .vfproj file) and not the one with the EXE. You can change this in the Debug property page of the project.

[reneeculver]

Ummm. I rarely shut my system down or exit VS. I also knew the windows file system was case preserving, but I didn't know the two entities were seperate: case preserving and case insensitive.

Renee