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> From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:54:02 CST
> 
> "A.vec" exists (A upper case):
> 
> C:\>djecho a*.vec A*.vec A*.VEC a*.VEC
> a.vec A.vec A*.VEC a*.VEC                    (current behavior)
> a.vec A.vec A.vec a.vec                      (intuitive behavior)

On a Windows 98 system, I get:

 A.vec A.vec A*.VEC a*.VEC

That is, "A.vec", the real file's name, matches itself and the
all-lowercase "a*.vec", but not the others.  This is
``case-sensitivity on LFN system except for all-lowercase patterns''
paradigm in action.

> In other words, act as if you had passed these strings to the 
> "dir" command.
> 
> "B.VEC" exists (all upper case):
> 
> C:\>djecho b*.vec B*.vec b*.VEC B*.VEC
> b.VEC B*.vec b*.VEC B.VEC                    (current behavior)
> b.vec b.vec b.vec B.VEC                      (intuitive behavior)

On my Windows 98, I get:

  b.vec B*.vec B.VEC b*.VEC

What version of djecho did you use?  Was it stock DJGPP v2.03 or
something newer?

> In other words, I think forcing an exact match on any upper case
> characters is not intuitive - that all matches should be case
> insensitive - at least as an option.

I support such a behavior as an option, but I think that having that
as the default is not a good idea.  Think about interactive programs
such as Bash and Emacs, which support file-name completion: there, if
you type "Make TAB", you don't want to see a file "makefile" in the
list of possible completions.

> I think this behavior should be decoupled from FNCASE.

Why?  What function will be left with FNCASE, then?

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