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On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Dhruva Krishnamurthy wrote:

>  If this problem is left unsolved, If I try to write in to an NFS mounted
>  file system, just imagine if the downcasing happens. I will end up
>  having filenames which do not adhere to what I typed (as Unix file
>  system is case sensitive).

Could you please try that and see if the Windows port of Emacs indeed 
downcases file names in that case?  I think it queries the system about 
the letter-case type of the underlying filesystem and behaves 
accordingly, but perhaps the primitives which do that are not called in 
the case in point.