From:	ndm AT shore DOT net (Norman D. Megill)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: djgpp loses characters when pasting to DOS
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Date:	24 Jan 1999 06:48:15 -0500
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In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 990124104948 DOT 4501K-100000 AT is>,
Eli Zaretskii  <djgpp AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>Windows doesn't care whether it's AS.EXE or as.exe or aS.eXe--all file 
>operations are case insensitive.
>
Standard Windows utilities might not care, but the OS itself definitely
makes a distinction - the mere fact that they are displayed with lower
case in one instance and upper case in the other shows the OS internally
made a distinction.  It is applications that may or may not care: e.g.
with my gnu port of "ls" I see

D:\mm>ls *.M
MLADEN.M  WOS.M

D:\mm>ls *.m
dan.m           e.m             miscellaneous.m  mladen2.m

Indeed, this inconsistent treatment drives me nuts.

--Norm

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