>>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2007 at 9:07 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Mark Post wrote: -snip- >> Don't try to run it on Windows, not even if you have Cygwin installed. >> I tested it with Cygwin _once_, and I have no desire to try to >> outguess what your Cygwin settings are regarding MS-DOS versus UNIX >> line-endings, etc. ...
> I can imagine! > While it might give you some relief to blow that off > (just assume Unix-style file handling, ie: binary), > there's no getting around that CYGWIN is case INsensitive > because the underlying system is case insensitive. > Did that bite you too? Not really. I used tr to lower/upper case any that might have alphabetics in it to get the result I need. But, as I said, I only tested the script once on Cygwin. And, just to be pedantic, Windows is case insensitive, but it is also case preserving, so it's not quite as bad as TSO, for example. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
