FilenameToFTP renames files and folders for a next-
coming FTP-upload that way, that it replaces invalid
characters with an underscore "_". German special
character as ä, ö, ü, ß will be replaced
with "ae", "oe", "ue" and "ss". The filename will be
lowercased and the file gets the current date, so
it's easier to differ from earlier uploaded files.
On unix-based internet-servers it makes a big
difference, whether the characters of a filename is
lower- or uppercase. If you upload a program
as "FilenameToFTP.Zip" on a FTP-server for example,
but you point in a link to "filenametoftp.zip", so
the programm won't be found by a browser online, even
though at your local system all seems to be alright,
because your windows-system will match the right name
automatically, which is not the case in the internet.
The same effect will occur with special characters as
the german umlauts.
Safe characters are a-z, 0-9 and the underscore.
FilenameToFTP does the job for you, to rename the
file, so you can safely upload it to a ftp-server and
later have no problem, they will be found, same as on
your local system. For that, you should use
FilenameToFTP every time, before you upload a file to
your server. In addition the program sets the file-
date to the current one (so it looks like you have
edited it just today the last time), so it's easier
to you to differ from earlier uploaded files and to
find out, what file you have to upload, when you
search them with your window-find-function with date-
option.

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