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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
Message-ID: <3274@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 19 Jun 91 07:58:23 GMT
References: <1991Jun15.172306.19724@uwasa.fi> <1991Jun15.222200.26041@cbfsb.att.com> <3259@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <2554@gold.gvg.tek.com>
Reply-To: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <2554@gold.gvg.tek.com> shaunc@gold.gvg.tek.com (Shaun Case) writes:
>However, when I am getting
>options from a menu, or asking for a drive letter or a filename, I usually
>convert everything to lower case using tolower(), either to reduce the number
>of comparisons in a switch(){} statement, or to make things look nicer.
>(I don't like the look of "c:\fILes\ZIP\archive\*.*".)  

Well, although having the "correct" conversion between upper and lower case
would be nice, it is not necessary for you to worry about this particular
problem.

Why ?

Well, even though we want to be able to use 8-bit text in editors, terminal
emulators and such programs, 8-bit filenames are a very low priority.

I mean - they would be nice to have, but DOS only supports them partially,
so we generally don't uses them - in fact, in the documentation of all the
programs I sell here in Iceland (and I have written 3 out of 4 of the best
selling programs here) there is a warning not to use our special characters
in file names.

-frisk