extensions

[Rakdos]

What is the Difference in Upper- and lower-case extensions in Windows if any??

[bloodhound]

i am not sure if there is any difference at all. Saving jpgs thought paint seems to give you upper case extensions

[Rakdos]

well in photshop cs it asks which one it should save it as and i was just wondering

[bloodhound]

does it? i dont remember it saying anything. just write it has lower case. thats the usual convention

[Rakdos]

well i was thinkin that there was a difference. thats what i get for thinking.

[Sayonara]

Not really. It will make a difference on Unix-based file systems though, as they are case sensitive.

 

(So image.bmp would be considered a different file to image.BMP.)

[Rakdos]

Not really. It will make a difference on Unix-based file systems though' date=' as they are case sensitive.

 

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how so ???

[Sayonara]

...

 

Which sentence?

[Rakdos]

(So image.bmp would be considered a different file to image.BMP.)

^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS ONE

[Sayonara]

Because Unix-based file systems are case-sensitive.

 

a != A

[Rakdos]

is there a reason they are or is it just an quirk?????

[Sayonara]

It's the way Unix works.

 

If you think about it, it makes sense to have a != A. Because a != A irrespective of whether they are binary representations of the ASCII table characters, or the English alphabet characters there on the page.

[Rakdos]

my question is awnsered you can close the thread any time you want to

[Jordie]

What is the Difference in Upper- and lower-case extensions in Windows if any??

 

No diffrence at all. Most people prefer to put uppercase extenstions. On Windows it dosen't matter. The same thing also applys to filenames. You can have a file named, "iDoNtCare" and it's the same as, "Idontcare." On Linux and other UNIX like operating systems these would be looked at as two diffrent files.