From: "Doc" <postmaster@[127.0.0.1]>


| I don't know whether it makes a difference or not (appears not to in
| winME here), but why take a chance ? All MS info says to use capitals but
| it seems to be critical in SOME circumstances only. Again, why take a
| chance ?
|
| --
| Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
| safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
| broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming
| "WOW, WHAT A RIDE"

I do know !

HOSTS and hosts are the same file and are interpreted equally on; Win9x/ME, NT4, Win2k,
WinXP and Win2003 Server.

The statemant "...to be critical in SOME circumstances..." is false.

Prove it to yourself. The hosts file is in the directory pointed to by the envronmental
variable %windir% therefore by default it is %windir%\hosts = c:\windows\hosts

Create a file called 'hosts' and save it in c:\windows.
Now create a file called HOSTS and save it in c:\windows. The result, 'hosts' will be
overwritten and replaced by 'HOSTS'.

In Unix/Linux it would be ./etc/hosts
Now if you create a file and called it HOSTS and saved it in ./etc
you will have in the ./etc folder a 'hosts' file and a 'HOSTS' file. Both will exist. The
same goes for folders.

In Unix/Linux the folder /pub is not the same as /PUB
Example: ftp://ftp.3com.com/ where you'll see both.
They might point to the same place but they are two distinctly different folders.
On a Windows platorm you can't create \pub if \PUB already exists.


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Dave
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