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Title:MRU Internal Bug Reports
Moderator:COOKIE::STMARTIN
Created:Wed Sep 20 1995
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:346
Total number of notes:1175

298.0. "OP:MED should Find be case-insensitive" by COOKIE::STMARTIN (Andy St.Martin) Thu Mar 06 1997 16:23

    MRU v1.2 will have a new command for finding a cartridge by
    barcode (on robots that support barcode readers).
    
    Should this be a case-insensitive or case-sensitive search?
    
    ANSI and EBCDIC labeled tapes are uppercase only.  The SCSI Send
    Volume Tag command allows mixed case.  Do our robots that support
    barcode readers allow external labels with lowercase characters?
    
    Andy
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298.1why not both?TAPE::SENEKERHead banging causes brain mushFri Mar 07 1997 08:524
Can you add a qualifier/parameter to allow case-sensitive or
case-insensitive.  One could be the default.

Rob
298.2DECWET::RWALKERRoger Walker - Media ChangersFri Mar 07 1997 10:348
	If the SCSI spec allows for mixed case the program should 
	play it safe and do the same.  It you wanted to be slick
	you could always send the command as entered and if that 
	misses then quietly try with only uppercase.   Even if the
	TL810/20 series don't support mixed case something else
	will.  We've all seen that if it's in the spec somebody
	will use it no matter how useless the feature is ("hey
	that's cool, lets add it").
298.3After we start field test...NABETH::alanDr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.Tue Mar 11 1997 13:4211
	While removing the mouse radio buttons in the GUI, I discovered
	it would easier to change the RadioBox for them to a RowColumn
	box to cut down on changes to the dialog formatting code.  So,
	I've added a hook for selecting between case sensitive and
	case insentive volume tags.  I think the best default is
	case insensitive, but that will take a bit more work.  For
	now the toggle will be insensitive.

	For the CLI and to get the user preference for the GUI we'll
	add a logical/environment variable of some sort.  If anyone
	has a suggestion for a name, we'll take it.
298.4NABETH::alanDr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.Wed Mar 12 1997 13:246
	Well, the work for the GUI was easy enough that this feature
	will be there.  The logical/environment variable that gives
	the default is MRU_CASE_SENSITIVE.  It will set the initial
	value for the application wide preferences, with the default
	not being case sensitive.  This applies to both Find and
	the Cleaning cartridge prefix name.
298.5Close.NABETH::alanDr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.Tue Apr 01 1997 16:503
	This is now fixed in the CLI as well.  If the MRU_CASE_SENSITIVE
	logical/environment variable is NOT set, the lower case characters
	of the bar-code will be converted to upper case.