Uppercase in filenames generated by RoboHelp

I developed (originally in RoboHelp HTML X5) and maintain
(now in X7) a FlashHelp system. (FYI that the fact that it's
FlashHelp is irrelevant to my problem.)
When my client's developers attempt to check in my source
files to their source code control system, they always complain
that some of the folders and filenames have mixed case. They want
everything in lowercase.
Specifically, they are complaining about:
-- a folder in which the images are stored. The folder is
Images. Is it capped because that's how I originally named it and
therefore I can change it (and the change will "stick")?
-- RoboHHRE.lng. They want to know if I can force RoboHelp to
write it as robohhre.lng?
-- eHlpDhtm.js. They want to know same. But I also wonder if
I even need this file anymore and can just nix it. I suspect it's
legacy.
-- eHelp.xml -- ditto above.
For my output, I have the set the Use Lowercase File Names
(Recommended for UNIX), but, obviously, that controls only output.
It is these source files that my developers are complaining
about.

Hi, Nita.
If you created the folder as Images, you can change it to
images. However, a quirk of RH, inherited from MS apparently,
prevents it from recognizing a change of case by itself. It might
be fixed now, but if you have a problem making the change stick,
change Images to Nita (or something), save the project, and change
Nita to images.
The RH furniture files are a different matter.
RoboHHRE.lng carries the alternative language settings. Since
you have the options of US or UK English, I don't know what would
happen if you deleted the file.
When RH puts a file in WebHelp output, there's a use for it
under one circumstance or another. eHlpDhtm.js is extremely
important if you have generated Applet and/or DHTML output.
Also, consider that these files are referenced in htm topics,
htm furniture, js and xml files whose origin is in the RH program
application folders.
It's easy enough to change the filenames after you generate
WebHelp, but I believe Unix will be unhappy unless you also change
all the references in the output as well.
Not too hard with search and replace after generating
WebHelp, but it shouldn't be too much trouble for your developers
to force all file names to lower case whenever they appear inside
< > brackets.
Probably they deal with this frequently and have a utility
they can use. Or they should be able to write a script of their
own.
Whether .jar and .cab files are involved here, I don't know.
I'm reluctant to advise doing this in the RH program files,
where there are DLL and other sorts of files, or in the project
folder, where the .cpb database file and others refer to them.
Good luck, and if you experiment in a backup copy of a
project, please report back on results.
Harvey

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