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From: Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr (Pierre A. Humblet)
Subject: Re: Case sensitivity in filenames
6 Jan 1999 02:26:35 -0800 :
Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990105203604.00857750.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.ne.mediaone.net>
References: <19990105231647 DOT 23310 AT mundook DOT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU>
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To: Fergus Henderson <fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU>
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

At 11:16 PM 1/5/99 +1100, you wrote:
>
>If a program is invoked directly from the DOS command line, or from a
>non-cygwin program, then I think wildcards still get expanded.
He wants more: even constant filenames from inside the
program should open in a case insensitive manner (if a file already exists)

>In addition, bash and readline should also support optional 
>case insensitivity for filename globbing and filename completion.
>
They already do (b20.1)
bash: 
shopt -s nocaseglob

..inputrc:
set completion-ignore-case on

Pierre


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