Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!jmsellens
From: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens)
Subject: NBP Lookups - case sensitive, or not?
Message-ID: <1991Feb24.221303.20106@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 1991 22:13:03 GMT
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I've got a selection of UNIX machines.  I have ru-cap2, and am using
ethertalk, uab, and iptalk on different machines.  I have some
AppleTalk zones, and some of the zone names are mixed case.

On the iptalk and ethertalk machines, "atlook Zone" and "atlook zone"
both do a successful lookup in zone "Zone".  But on the uab machines,
only "atlook Zone" works, "atlook zone" returns nothing.

Now, I think this is because the hash functions and the zone_compare
function in the uab+ source don't hash and match "Zone" and "zone" to
the same thing.

The question is: should it be case sensitive, or case insensitive?
I can't find a copy of Inside AppleTalk, so I can't try looking up
the definitive answer.  Anyone?

Much obliged

John Sellens
University of Waterloo
jmsellens@dragon.waterloo.edu


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