Comment 4 for bug 550393

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Chisheng Huang (cph-chi-square-works) wrote : Re: [Bug 550393] Re: Win32: DIRECTORY case sensitive

Chisheng Huang <email address hidden> writes:

> Nikodemus Siivola <email address hidden> writes:
>
>> Unless I'm terribly mistaken NTFS volumes are case-sensitive even on
>> Windows. So unless DIRECTORY on Windows has a separate keyword to
>> control case-sensitivity, the default will by necessity be sometimes
>> wrong?
>>
>> What do Lispworks and Allegro do?
>
> No idea about Allegro. With Lispworks 4.3.7 for Windows and a
> directory d:/test/ with 2 files: AA.C01 and AA.PNG,
>
> (directory #p"d:/test/AA.*") => (#P"d:\\test\\AA.C01" #P"d:\\test\\AA.PNG")
> (directory #p"d:/test/aa.*") => (#P"d:\\test\\AA.C01" #P"d:\\test\\AA.PNG")
>
>
> (directory #p"d:/test/A*.*") => (#P"d:\\test\\AA.C01" #P"d:\\test\\AA.PNG")
> (directory #p"d:/test/*.*") => (#P"d:\\test\\AA.C01" #P"d:\\test\\AA.PNG")
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                        ^
This should be: (directory #p"d:/test/a*.*")

-cph