From: Keith_Graham/Commetrex AT commetrex DOT com Subject: Re: Alternate Mixed Case scheme? 3 Feb 1998 18:29:07 -0800 Message-ID: <852565A0.0070BB17.00.cygnus.gnu-win32@commetrex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: "$Bill Luebkert" Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >I don't like the mount idea, I would prefer an env vrbl that would >ignore case for file listing/opening but not for creating. The >underlying code could check the vrbl to see which matching to do >(case sensitive or not). As a note, the suggested modification doesn't change file opening (you can still specify an uppercase name, and NT doesn't care) or file creating. If you open the file "WinNT", it will still be "WinNT" in the file system, but "ls" would show "winnt". The only thing it changes is directory listing, so that file completion, wildcard matching, etc. always see lower case filenames. This isn't perfect for everyone, but I don't think any solution would work except perhaps to create an NT file system that supports mixed case. :-) The environment variable solution might work better, although it might require changes to more source code (including other shells, etc.) It also doesn't deal with the issues about sorting files (i.e. ls) being case sensitive, etc. I suspect that both solutions would work, and it depends on how you use the tools to decide which would be best for you. Keith Graham kgraham AT commetrex DOT com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".