Are filenames compatible?
With more extensive experience in both Unix and Windows, you will discover another difference. Unix filenames are case-sensitive, so that README, ReadMe, and readme are distinct files. The Windows filesystem preserves lettercase in filenames, but ignores it when looking them up; thus, the three sample files are identical to Windows applications. If you use the Unix lettercase in Windows applications run under WINE, you will get the expected file, but if you use some other casing, such as ReAdMe, it is impossible to predict which of the three files will be opened. There are several other important differences between the filename syntaxes in Unix and Windows. Avoid problems by sticking to simple, and relatively short, filenames consisting of letters in a single lettercase, digits, hyphen, and underscore, with an initial letter or digit, at most a single dot, and no more than three characters after the dot. The old MS-DOS 8+3 filenaming rule (at most eight characters before the dot, and
