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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Trashing case (Re: high-speed file transfer)
Message-ID: <3337@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 27 Jan 89 00:15:15 GMT
References: <891@io.UUCP> <212200006@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <36@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <46@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <46@snll-arpagw.UUCP>, paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes:
> is that since a Sun, for example, has case sensitive file names, I
> could have the files "newcli" and "NEWCLI" stored on my server.  When
> I do the Examine, how do I know which is the correct one?

Try for an exact match. If that fails go for the first in ASCII order, or
some such heuristic. Currently what Ameristar does is go for an exact
match, then go for a fully lowercased version... then fail.

Note that even with this heuristic will deal properly with case-conserved
files. If you keep trying instead of failing...
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  Hackercorp.
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