[plug] case sensitivity issue

[Leon Brooks]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:35, Jon Miller wrote:
> Does anyone know if it's possible to make either Linux  or MySQL not
> case-sensitive? Seems that bringing a code from the Windows
> enviroment may involve a lot of recoding due to case-sensitvity
> issues.

Put it on a VFAT partition.

Alternatively, put it on a SaMBa share which has been set to ignore case 
differences.

Better still, fix the app. Dollars to doughnuts it has some backslashes 
hidden away somewhere as well - even though slashes work fine in 
MS-Windows paths - which will break compatibility with *everything* 
else.

An alternative which works well for programs which include a single 
common header file is to redefine functions like fopen() and 
reimplement them to lowercase their filenames and replace any 
backslashes with slashes.

Cheers; Leon

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