Only lowercase filenames accepted

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Author: Perkins
Date: Apr 11, 2016 9:55 PM
Category: Xi'Chung Bug Hunt
Posts: 3
#1
So the game I'm autohosting has a title case name, which pbw refuses to accept. This hasn't been a problem for me before, since the linux autohost script happily converts the filename to lowercase when it packages it for upload, but I've now got autohost running in a vm and it's failing to upload the archive. Since se5 is case-agnostic, could we make pbw do the conversion to lowercase?

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Commenter: Fyron
Date: Apr 13, 2016 11:07 AM
Only lowercase filenames accepted
#2
If you rename your save file name to all lower-case, does SE5 re-write it to an uppercase value when processing the turn and writing the new file?
Commenter: Perkins
Date: Apr 14, 2016 7:49 PM
Only lowercase filenames accepted
#3
Yes, se5 remembers the filename originally specified when creating the game and always writes the new turn into that name. It might not if the lowercase version exists already on a case-insenstive filesystem, but since autohost downloads the savegame to a scratch folder and se5 outputs the savegame into $se5/Savegame... I just tested, if I create the savegame with a lower-case name in the output folder on NTFS and it seems to just overwrite that rather than renaming it to upper-case so that at least works around the problem.