Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:14:33 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: bash binary uploaded Feb. 18th
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On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Mark E. wrote:

> globbing routine was changed to downcase short filenames like 
> DJGPP's globbing routine does. An exception is made in the case of 
> Unixy extensionless filenames like README and NEWS which remain 
> in uppercase when LFN=Y on Windows 9x.

I think this is a bad idea, because it's inconsistent with what the
library functions do: they always downcase such names unless you set
FNCASE=y.  Besides, what about names like FAQ, or README.DOS, or ONEWS
(and OONEWS, and OOONEWS) in Emacs?  For any bunch of names you could
think of, there will always be a name you didn't think about, and it
will confuse people and cause questions ("Why is NEW printed in upper
case, but FAQ is not?").

My experience is that consistent handling of such cases is more
important than beauty.  People who want to see these names in
uppercase will set FNCASE=y and have it their way.