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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> wrote in message news:<mailman.3547.1048480557.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>...
> > From: jpwoodruff@irisinternet.net (John Woodruff)
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> > Date: 23 Mar 2003 13:07:57 -0800
> > 
> > On one occasion only -- when I drag & drop a file onto the Icon of a
> > not-started emacs -- the file name is written in the mode-line in the
> > old DOS notation of all-caps with 8 chars.
> > ....
> > Suggestion to resolve this very minor infelicity?
> 
> I don't think you can do anything, short of upgrading your OS.  This
> is a misfeature of Windows.


OP here:  I'm not at all sure which direction is "up".  I'll learn to
live with it...