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2.3.7 Case Sensitivity Problems

By default, the Unix version of MsgEd TE behaves case-sensitively (like any program running on a Unix file system), i.E. it uses all filenames that it reads from configuration file exactly as they are spelled, and all filenames that it creates (i.E. by appending filename extensions) are created in lower case.

This may lead to problems if you are sharing a message base between the Unix versin of MsgEd and DOSish fidonet programs (i.E. fidonet programms running on DOS, OS/2 or Windows, or simply a Windows or OS/2 fileserver that holds the message base). Those programs tend to create a real mess of filenames by mixing both lower-, upper- and mixed-case spelling. If you are running the Unix version of MsgEd in such an environment, you should add the line

Switch AdaptiveCase On

as the first line in your configuration file. This will effectivly make MsgEd behave case-insensitive and should avoid most problems with case sensitivity (see List of available switches).