Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!cica!ctrsol!ginosko!uunet!rick From: rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: C expire + B news Summary: case insensitive message-ids Message-ID: <63816@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 14 Aug 89 15:51:18 GMT References: <6703@cs.utexas.edu> Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 11 > Regarding message-id case: B news converts ids to lower case before > writing the dbm file. C news does not. I chose to go with B news' > convention. If you ever have to rebuild the history file from > scratch, with C news' mkhistory, you'll need to add a strlower() > to mkdbm.c. B news does it because message-ids are supposed to be case insensitive when compared. The simplest way to do that with dbm is to map everything to lower case. How does cnews keep the case independance without a similar hack?