Hi Enrico,

rexx testOORexx .. It should have returned ..  Failure during initialization
>
How ooRexx searches for external files is documented in rexxref section
"Locating External Rexx Files"

or the well known Rexx extension CLS,cls,REX,rex  ..Is reasonable .. to
> search for upper and lower case extensions
>
It's in fact the other way round. We're searching for the file name as-is
and in lower case on a case-sensitive files system, but the defined
extension are used as-is (though there is an explicit uppercase .REX
extension in the list of searched extensions)



On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 12:52 AM Enrico Sorichetti via Oorexx-devel <
oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Thank You for caring. The fix works
> BUT …..
> Since UNIX is case sensitive
> IMO It is just plain wrong to match the lower case of a file name
>
> I just renamed testOORexx.rex to testoorexx.rex
> And invoking the test suite with
> rexx testOORexx . . .
>
> It should have returned
>  Failure during initialization: Program "testOORexx" was not found.
> But the test suite was run anyway
>
> For the well known Rexx extension CLS,cls,REX,rex
> Is reasonable ( when the extension is not specified) to search for upper
> and lower case extensions
> But only for the extension and not on the full filename
>
> Cheers
> Enrico
>
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