k, found it.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Viktor Szakáts<harbour...@syenar.hu> wrote:
> Unless there is some input how to create a "simple" patch file which
> works on both *nix and non-*nix systems, also with the EOLs sorted
> out, I'll stop this very time consuming and frustrating subproject after
> spending too many hours on it without any advance.
>
> Problems:
> - If I create .dif on win, *nixes cannot process it
> - If I create .dif on *nix, .dif EOLs will be inconsistent, SVN complains
> - If I create .dif on *nix for LF converted sources, win cannot process it
>
> Brgds,
> Viktor
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Viktor Szakáts<harbour...@syenar.hu> wrote:
>> 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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