unable to access file with UPPERCASE extension

[Gregor Mosheh]

Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Hi all.
> Our MapServer fails to open some shapefiles with .SHP:
 > the same files, when renamed to *.shp, are opened correctly.

That's entirely normal and expected behavior. Windows people moving into 
the Unix world tend to get bitten by this a lot -- Windows is not 
case-sensitive, while Unix is.

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