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From: winders@aux.support.apple.com (Scott Winders)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: NBP Lookups - case sensitive, or not?
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Date: 25 Feb 91 19:13:17 GMT
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In article <1991Feb24.221303.20106@watdragon.waterloo.edu> 
jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) writes:

> 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?

Page 7-5 of "Inside AppleTalk, Second Edition" states the following:

      "Entity names by definition are case-insensitive.  Thus, 
       Mona:Mailbox@Bandley3 is considered the same as 
       Mona:mailbox:bandley3 and MONA:MAILBOX:BANDLEY3."

In the above example, "Bandley3" is the zone name. Zone names are NOT case sensitive and shoul not be treated as case sensitive in any implementation of AppleTalk.

Scott Winders
internet: winders@aux.support.apple.com
AppleLink: winders.s@applelink.apple.com


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