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echo: muffin
to: Mike Tripp
from: Bo Simonsen
date: 2003-10-18 23:00:28
subject: Maximus messaging

MT>> case and not your OS.  I'll bet the same change would
 MT>> break DOS, OS2, and Win32 versions also.

 BS> But It doesn't matter, because DOS, OS2 and Win32 is not
 BS> file-casesentitive?

 MT> Since Scott seemed to be stressing the case in the docs 
 MT> back when there were only DOS and OS2 flavors, I 
 MT> assumed that it was not due to file I/O...since, as you 
 MT> say, the file systems could care less.

I bet so.. 

 MT> However, I have tried to break mine (DOS and OS2) by 
 MT> testing mixed case and lower case versions of "MESSAGE" 
 MT> in MENUS.CTL declarations and it looks like I 
 MT> unfortunately still have access to K)ill and R)eply, no 
 MT> matter how I do it. :)

Okay, your operating system isn't case sentitive at all so it's understandable..

 MT> So that blows my theory of a string comparison 
 MT> operation with the app failing...I took the docs too 
 MT> "literally".

I bet the FFind function doesn't care about it :)

Or then he use something simulear to strcasecmp().

Regards,
Bo


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