Okay.

Is there a simple cmdline to convert filenames to lowercase,
which works on most *nix systems?

If there is I'd like to include it in readme.txt.

Brgds,
Viktor

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Przemyslaw Czerpak<dru...@acn.waw.pl> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Szak�ts Viktor wrote:
>> I know, one of the major points of this patch is to
>> make DBU code use lower case names. However DBU sources
>> still come in uppercase from the vendor, as we're just
>> patching them :) Same situation with superlib, but
>> there at least the source file is on a known public
>> FTP server.
>
> Viktor, please convert it to lower names.
> You will not find native *nix user who can accept upper filenames
> in such context. Also most of use use archive programs which automatically
> convert DOS file names to lower case. The problem is only with trash
> introduced by windows and mixed short (upper) and long names (mixed) so
> automatic file name conversion from DOS is usually disabled and have to
> be enabled explicitly by user but it's still sth what is default action
> for most of *nix users. People who are using case sensitive FS as default
> used to use simple strict file case rules to avoid problems.
>
> best regards,
> Przemek
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