FP2002 Hyperlinking Problem with filenames

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GLMoore

Please take a look at this image:
http://www.merrymech.com/_priview/images/FP2002hyperlinkProblem.gif

Note that in the folder view shown on the left, the filenames in the green
box are all in lower case.
Note that in the Edit Hyperlink dialog window show on the right, the same
filenames shown in the green box are in upper and lower case.

Using this dialog window to create or edit hyperlinks and then uploading the
resulting page to a *nix server, these links fail, naturally.

What is the problem w/ this inconsistency in FP2002 -- is it a known issue,
and is there a cure or must I create all hyperlinks via hand-coding?

This is fairly urgent, and I appreciate any help you can offer.

GLMoore
OS = WinXP
 
This is a known issue for many FrontPage MVPs, so I would assume it has been
passed on. To make sure, I will contact the FP team about this.

It is really not a problem, if you are on windows servers. It is a problem
in UNIX. In my world, I make sure everything is lower case when I build
webs, so they can go to either environment, but you will have to make that
determination yourself (whether it fits your environment or not).

Currently, the only solution is to type in, or drag on the page and edit the
link in HTML view.

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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Thanks Gregory -- I do know about the upper/lower case issue when a site is
hosted on *nix, and this is actually something my viewlet-producer and I
have discussed before ... I think he just forgot when it came time to make
new files.

My concern was with this disparity between the way the file names appear in
the folder view and the contrary way they appear in the dialog window. I
just couldn't figure out why two different parts of FP were showing me two
different versions of the same filenames. It's a comfort (sort of!) to know
that it is a recognized issue (though not passed on to the community of
users in any way that I have become aware of until now.)

I realize that I can eliminate that as a future problem by sticking to all
lowercase filenames, and I will be doing that.

Thanks again for your response.

GLMoore
 
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