Re: R: [Plib-devel] Update on 3ds loader

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Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> > Couldn't the loader convert each filename to (say) uppercase internally?
> 
> 2) If you can't get an exact match, THEN you'll have to search the current
>    directory looking for files whose names (when converted to uppercase)
>    match the given filename (when converted to uppercase).  Whether you
>    pick the first match or flag an error if there are multiple possible
>    matches is an interesting question.

Thake the first one and throw a warning IMHO.

> Since searching the directory that way is painful to do in a portable
> manner, this isn't going to be very nice to code, however, you don't
> know whether IMAGE.BMP is really stored as IMAGE.BMP, image.bmp, Image.bmp
> or iMaGe.Bmp - so there is no way to find the right filename to 'fopen'
> without doing a search.

We *need* a protable file I/O library that also can handle directories!

Then we could have something like 

  f = fuOpen( "image.bmp", FU_IGNORE_CASE | FU_READ | FU_BINARY );

CU,
Christian