Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2003 07:50:56 +0300
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: dirent->d_name returns lowercase?
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> From: "deckerben" <bdeck AT lycos DOT co DOT uk>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:34:01 +0200
> 
> I have seen that for filenames that are composed entirely of UPPERCASE
> letters, that their dirent->d_name entry is all *lowercase*. This can be a
> problem when porting posix-oriented programs that happen to require
> UPPERCASE. Good examples of this are module subdirectories for Python and re
> comparisons from a list.

As DJ pointed out, this is intentional.
 
> I am working on a work-around.

You can set FNCASE=y in the environment and get what you want.

This is not the default because in most situations the behavior you
see now is what users want, especially if they have files that come
from DOS (where _all_ directory entries are in UPPERCASE).

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