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From: Andreas Schnellbacher <aschn@despammed.com>
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Subject: DosQueryPathInfo with correct case (was: Force gnu assembler to invoke the preprocessor)
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:44:40 +0200
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A.D. Fundum wrote:

>> One should be able to detect the case of the S, at least with HPFS
>> and JFS.
>
> As an aside: is there an API or function which consistenly returns
> the case of a directory as-is, with or without the drive letter?
>
> Directory (full path: "D:\Download\Database\Europe\CAC40) with both
> _getcwd and the DosQueryCurrentDir API:
>
>  [D:\download\database\europe\cac40]c:printdir
>  D:\download\database\europe\cac40
>
> But after those steps:
>
>  D:
>  CD \
>  CD Download
>
> The output (and eCS' $p$g-prompt) then isn't "D:\download" but
> "D:\Download"...

A combination of DosQueryPathInfo with DosFind* works for me.
(DosFindNext returns the correct case, so SysFileTree may work as well
for REXX.)

-- 
Andreas Schnellbacher