Re: [Mingw-msys] [ATTN Earnie] Re: dos2unix problems

[Luke D. <cod...@ho...>]

>From: Soren A <sor...@fa...>
>To: min...@li...
>Subject: [Mingw-msys] [ATTN Earnie] Re: dos2unix problems
>Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:34:51 +0000 (UTC)
>
>On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:29:04 GMT, "Luke Dunstan"
><cod...@ho...> wrote in
>news:F94...@ho...:
>
> > I can't think of any reason why this should have changed in 1.0.8.
> > When you used it under 1.0.7 was it on these exact same files, or
> > different ones? If the file extensions are in capitals (e.g. FOO.C)
> > then bash won't find the files unless you type *.C, but this has not
> > changed in any MSYS version AFAIK. This would also explain why
> > specifying the individual filenames works, because Windows isn't case
> > sensitive (though bash is).
>
>Luke, you surely aren't knowingly saying that MSYS' bash is broken, right?
>bash should certainly be doing globbing case-insensitively on Windows if we
>want it to:

I was not reporting a bug in bash or anything like that. I was just 
describing the default behaviour as a possible explanation for the user's 
reported problem. I didn't know about this option but I was not implying 
that bash should work differently than it does.

[snip]
>
>    Best,
>     Soren A

Luke


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