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From: garrity@garrity.applicon.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Yet another bug in VMS C
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Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 09:20:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 28 09:20:00 1987
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> I have discovered truly bizarre behavior in C for VAX/VMS.  The
> command-line arguments are folded to all lowercase.  The only way of
> preserving case seems to be to enclose arguments in double quotes.
>   .
>   .
>   .
> How does one tell it not to do it?  I could find no references to this
> in the index of the VMS C manual.

   This is not the compilers fault.  The command line interpreter is doing it
to you.  They have been converted to upper-case before your code ever saw 
them.  Therefore there is nothing you can do in the code to fix it.  Sorry.


-- Mike Garrity
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