From:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject:	Re: FW: Case sensitivity in filenames
5 Jan 1999 20:08:54 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<19990105201157.18638.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send103.yahoomail.com>
Reply-To:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
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To:	"Scandora, Anthony E., Jr." <scandora AT cmt DOT anl DOT gov>
Cc:	cygwin users <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

---"Scandora, Anthony E., Jr." <scandora AT cmt DOT anl DOT gov> wrote:
8<
>
> Windows, that means case-insensitive lookups.  If I type "dir
AuTo*.bAt" at
> a C: prompt, I get AUTOEXEC.BAT.  I expect the same from ls or any
other
> wildcard lookup program.  If regexp can't do it, why not create a
ciregexp
> that does case insensitive comparisons?
8<
Ok.  Go ahead and do it.  While you're at it, modify ls to support a
switch for case insensitivity.  You can get the source and modify it
freely as you wish.  There is nothing stopping you from doing this
modification.
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