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File system case translation

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Hi everybody, I am new to this forum and I like a Lot *nix system and also wine.
Every day we find winzozz only software and I have to install both on VBox and wine thru a shared directory.
Installing last software I noticed some troubles about file system access, wine map file system request directly to *nix so upper and lowercase are different and dumb winzz program return error as not finding file. I hope a filename translation feature need to be added to overcome this problem and run bad written programs. What did you think about?
Thank you very much
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Re: File system case translation

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rromano001 wrote:Installing last software I noticed some troubles about file system access, wine map file system request directly to *nix so upper and lowercase are different and dumb winzz program return error as not finding file. I hope a filename translation feature need to be added to overcome this problem and run bad written programs.
Wine already supports case insensitive file name lookups on case sensitive file systems. Are you saying that your program still doesn't work and wants file names in different case then what Wine reports?
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Hi, thanks for replay, yes thats what i am experiencing about, file exist a l a winzz but file not found is reported by program, XCELIO 2 from telemecanique. File_name has mixed upper lower case and BMP as extension, reported missing file has lower case bmp as extension. Can I download installation somewhere?
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I cannot edit, so Upload not download
a l a -> a la
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rromano001 wrote:file exist a l a winzz but file not found is reported by program, XCELIO 2 from telemecanique. File_name has mixed upper lower case and BMP as extension, reported missing file has lower case bmp as extension.
Have you tried simply changing the extension of the file in question to lowercase?
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Changing exactly as is cased still doesn't work but too many files have to be tampered and update or reinstall appear as a nightmare. I hope a solution inside wine can be the best way to address all of these problems applying some form of translation of casing or file mapping.
I don't like winzozz @all but again too many proprietary application exist on that worst and expensive prehistoric platform.
How can I debug this application and pinpoint problem?
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rromano001 wrote:Changing exactly as is cased still doesn't work but too many files have to be tampered and update or reinstall appear as a nightmare. I hope a solution inside wine can be the best way to address all of these problems applying some form of translation of casing or file mapping.
I don't like winzozz @all but again too many proprietary application exist on that worst and expensive prehistoric platform.
How can I debug this application and pinpoint problem?
Did you cd to the program directory before running the exe? You should.

Post terminal output, including the command used to start the program. If it's short post it here, otherwise use a site like pastebin and post a link. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log
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