From:	Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Command line wildcard expansion under Win2K
Date:	Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:25:11 CST
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First, I suggest looking at the info docs for the glob function, which
is what DJGPP internally calls to handle the command line:

info libc alpha glob

About 57% down the page is text:

On MSDOS, filenames are always matched case-insensitively.  On
filesystems that preserve letter-case in filenames (such as Windows 9x),
matches are case-insensitive UNLESS THE PATTERN INCLUDES UPPERCASE
CHARACTERS. (my caps)

So, if you use any upper case characters on your input you may be
surprised.  I believe this is the behavior which is non-intuitive.

There are some good reasons for this behavior, but I agree it would be
nice in many applications to be able to turn it off case sensitive
matching and still be able to return the lowercased names when 
appropriate.

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