Xref: utzoo comp.os.vms:18234 gnu.gcc:1033 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!uunet!bloom-beacon!gatech!udel!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rbr4 From: rbr4@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Roland Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,gnu.gcc Subject: C command line arguments / GNU C Summary: Where do caps get munged to lowercase???? Message-ID: <3217@ur-cc.UUCP> Date: 3 Oct 89 16:36:58 GMT Reply-To: rbr4@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Roland Roberts) Followup-To: comp.os.vms Organization: University of Rochester Lines: 21 I'm writing a couple of programs in C for general use in our lab. I've been using typical unix syntax, i.e., $ ruthx -e Where "-e" is one of several switches. The problem is that another switch is "-E". I'm trying to figure out why / where the "-E" gets munged to "-e". I can get around it by using quotes as in $ ruthx "-E" DCL usually turns everything to uppercase, so can someone explain what is happening here? roland -- Roland Roberts, University of Rochester BITNET: roberts@uornsrl Nuclear Structure Research Lab INTERNET: rbr4@uhura.cc.rochester.edu 271 East River Road UUCP: rochester!ur-cc!uhura!rbr4 Rochester, NY 14267 AT&T: (716) 275-8962