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Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 12:42:51 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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on Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:28:44 CST)
Subject: Re: Command line wildcard expansion under Win2K
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> From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:28:44 CST
> > 
> > Why don't they say v3p4*.vec or V3P4*.VEC?
> 
> Because years of using DOS/Windows showed no difference in any
> other applications?  Yes, you can retrain the users, but it's
> not intuitive for them why it should be different.

DJGPP does deviate from DOS/Windows in small ways, mostly in order to
support Unix-like behavior where necessary.  This is one of those
cases, I think.

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