Newbie questions

[" Clark Sims " <clarksimsgnu@my-Deja.com>]

 I just loaded cygwin onto my computer and I have
several questions.

1) is there a way to make a case insensitive file mask?
For example, my c source files appear as a mixture of
.c and .C suffixes. ls *.c returns a different set of
files than ls *.C

2) How does bash search for commands? I am used to DOS/
Windozs programming, where the dos command prompt
searches the path. When I am running bash however,
I must type in the full path of any executable that
I want to run. Is there some way of avoiding having
to type in the full path?

3) I would like to use cp to keep source files in
aggrement on sepparate machines. I have tried the
following command:
cp -v -u -r d:/cclib g:
where d: is a drive on my laptop, and g: is a drive
on my desktop. The problem is that the timestamps on
all the copied files are set to the current system 
files. I would like the timestamps to be the same
on all the copied files. This way when I copy back
from g:
cp -v -u -r g:/cclib d:
I get only the files that I have worked on during
the day. They way things stand, all of the files
I copied in the morning are copied back a second 
time. Is there a way to make the timestamps match?

Thanks in Advance,

Clark Sims


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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <conio.h>

void append_input( const char *npt, char *pg, int ln, int mxln, int mxwdth);
/*
assumes: 
   ln > 0
   mxwdth > 0
   strlen( npt) < mxwdth
   ln < mxln
   npt can't contain a newline character
changes:
   characters between pg[ln*mxwdth] and pg[ln*mxwdth+strlen(npt)]
description:
   appends npt to pg, at line ln
*/

void dump_input( const char *pg, int nmln, int mxln, int mxwdth, int wait);
/*
assumes:
   mxln >= nmln  > 0
   pg contains vallid null terminated strings, with a stride of mxwdth
changes:
   stdout
description:
   this dumps pg to stdout
   if wait is true, than getch is called, which causes
   the program to pause untill a key is hit from the keyboard
*/
 
#define MAXWIDTH 258

char input[MAXWIDTH+1];

const char *_usage = "usage: mypg [-p=25]\n";
int main( int argc, const char* argv[])
{
int p=25, i;
char *pg, *pinput;

if (argc > 1)
{
  if (argc!=2)
    {
      goto usage;
    }
  if (memcmp( argv[1], "-p=", 3) != 0)
    {
      goto usage;
    }
  p = atol( argv[1]+3);
  if (p<=0)
    {
      printf( "p must be > 0\n");
      goto usage;
    }
}
  
pg = (char *)malloc( p*MAXWIDTH);
if (pg==NULL){
  printf( "out of memory\n");
  return 2;
}

i = 0;
do {
  input[0] = 0;
  pinput = gets( input);
  
  if (pinput != NULL || input[0]!=0)
    {
      append_input( input, pg, i, p, MAXWIDTH);
      i++;
    }
    
  if (i%p == 0 || pinput==NULL)
    {
      dump_input( pg, i, p, MAXWIDTH, pinput!=NULL);
      i = 0;
    }
} while (pinput != NULL);
      
return 0;

usage:

printf( _usage);

return 1;
}

void append_input( 
   const char *npt, 
   char *pg, 
   int ln, 
   int mxln, 
   int mxwdth)
{
char *funcname = "append_input";	
long nptlen;

if (npt==NULL)
   {
      printf( "npt==NULL in %s\n", funcname);
      exit( 1);
   }

if (pg==NULL)
   {
      printf( "pg==NULL in %s\n", funcname);
      exit( 1);
   }

if (ln < 0)
   {
	   printf( "ln<= in %s\n", funcname);
	   exit( 1);
   }

if (mxln < 0)
   {
	   printf( "mxln<= in %s\n", funcname);
	   exit( 1);
   }

if (mxwdth < 0)
   {
	   printf( "mxwdth<= in %s\n", funcname);
	   exit( 1);
   }

nptlen = strlen( npt);

if (nptlen >= mxwdth)
   {
      printf( "strlen(input) > maxwidth in %s\n", funcname);
      exit( 1);
   }
   
strcpy( pg+ln*mxwdth, npt);

}    

void dump_input( 
   const char *pg, 
   int nmln, 
   int mxln, 
   int mxwdth, 
   int wait)
{
int i;

if (nmln > mxln)
  {
    printf( "error, nmln > mxln in dump_input\n");
    exit( 1);
  }

for (i=0;i<nmln;i++)
  {
    puts( pg+i*mxwdth);
  }
  
fflush( NULL);

if (wait)
   {
      getch();
   }
}






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