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Date:	Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:54:48 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Case-insensitive globbing (was RE: Cygnus question)
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In-Reply-To:	<F10D23B02E54D011A0AB0020AF9CEFE988F9AB@lynx.ceddec.com>; from btown@ceddec.com on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 09:55:35AM -0500

On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 09:55:35AM -0500, Town, Brad wrote:
>> There are no facilities in cygwin for case insensitive 
>> globbing currently
>> and I have no plans or desires to add this.  If someone is interested
>> (hah) in providing a patch, I'll gladly consider it.
>
>"Hah", you say?  That's like a triple-dog dare!
>
>Attached is a patch to glob.c to allow case-insensitive globbing when a
>program is run from a Windows shell.  It's nothing special -- one extra
>#include and a couple tolowers.

Thanks for the patch but this really needs to be under the control of a
CYGWIN setting.  We already have CYGWIN=glob.  Maybe something like
CYGWIN=glob:ignorecase would be appropriate.

cgf

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