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Re: Case sensitive filenames
- To: dkionka at gadzoox dot com (Daniel P. Kionka)
- Subject: Re: Case sensitive filenames
- From: Geoffrey Noer <noer at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:21:06 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
Daniel P. Kionka wrote:
[...]
> I am glad you have a #1 goal of helping port UNIX programs. But you
> need a #2 goal of making it Windows-friendly. I used MKS Toolkit before
> gnu-win, and I never had problems with text files or filename case. Why
> can't making it work as well as MKS Toolkit be a goal?
This is in fact the case. Pretty much anything we can do to improve ease
of use under Win32 that doesn't break Unix compatibility is a good thing.
Changing glob/readline to make it match in a case-insensitive manner
may fit that category. But I haven't thought through the implications
of doing this yet...
--
Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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