From:	Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Command line wildcard expansion under Win2K
Date:	Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:44:10 CST
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> I personally see no reason why such a pattern should not work, but clearly
> there is a lot of logic involved trying to provide UNIX like behavior under
> MS-DOS and WinXX.  Personally, I would prefer all 8.3 filenames returned in
> lower case, and all others left alone, and for matches to be case
> insensitive no matter what, but I can see that others might want something
> else.  When I get a chance, I wll make and submit a patch that works the way
> I prefer, case-insensitive matching everywhere.  I will probably not bother
> changing anything in how filenames are actually returned.

The module which controls this is
 djgpp/src/libc/posix/glob/glob.c
It's included in the djlsr203.zip

Look at the variable "caseless" (in particular where it is set when the
name has upper case characters and use_lfn).

If you want proper downcasing of 8.3 names under Win2K, you can also grab 
the updated CVS source:
 http://www.delorie.com/bin/cvsweb.cgi/djgpp/src/libc/posix/glob/glob.c
but you will also need to grab the new _is_DOS83 routine:
 http://www.delorie.com/bin/cvsweb.cgi/djgpp/src/libc/dos/lfn/is_dos83.c

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