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From: "Jim Lefavour" <jamesl AT mail DOT albany DOT net>
Organization: No Way Out
To: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT dilu DOT ml DOT org>, opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 22:34:35 -0500
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Subject: Re: A few FS notions
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> On Thu, 1 May 1997, Jim Lefavour wrote:
> 
> > In that matter, you could use ext2 (which is definately freely 
> > available) and create the search function so that it is 
> > case-insensitive, either by default or by command line switch...
> 
> This is the kind of things that makes for a *really* flexible OS that
> *everyone* (hackers and "normal people") are going to use: configurable
> all the way, with a set of "reasonable" defaults. It should not be a
> command line switch to every command you issue, rather a parameter of the
> IFS or even better, a parameter of the shell (so that multiple users on a
> same machine can set up their respective shell with the option they each
> want, with or without case-sensitiveness).

YES! Set the default, through whatever means, and if you ever want to 
use the other method a command line switch is included to "reverse" 
it...

SEARCH CASE SENSITIVITY=Off
...

find /CASE whatever.*

Yes... this is it<g>

Jim
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