From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Command line wildcard expansion under Win2K
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 14:05:52 CST
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> > Look at the variable "caseless" (in particular where it is set when the
> > name has upper case characters and use_lfn).
> 
> I wish it were that simple, but it isn't.  

Actually, it is.  This variable is only used to control the flags to
the fnmatch call (the FNM_NOCASE flag).  If "caseless" is set to 1, 
the glob always does a case insensitive match, which is what the OP 
wants (and is standard for all DOS/Win program behavior on the file
system).

Adding a statement like "if crt_flag_alwayscaseinsensitiveglob caseless=1"
should work (or make this default and require a flag to enable upper
case quirkyness).

> The ``when-to-downcase'' issue pops up in other places, not just in `glob'.  

The what to return/display issue doesn't have anything to do with matching
case insensitively - the return file name will work in open statements
no matter what the case is.  No proposal to change that behavior at all.
There is a flag to control it.  There is no flag to control the 
non-standard globing behavior.

If there are specific instances of GNU/Unixy programs that would expect
glob to fail (not match) based on case - I would argue they should be
the exceptions instead of the rule on a DOS/Windows based compiler.