On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Aengus wrote: > > You've lost me there, Stephen. I understand why hk568512 should be > treated as the same as HK568512 on a platform where usernames are not > case sensitive. But I don't understand why should Analog decide that > when I say to treat HK568512 as "Adam Brown", Analog decided to treat it > as "adam brown"? Especially if Usernames are case sensitive, and "Adam > Brown" and "adam brown" are not the same thing. >
It only converts them if usernames are case insensitive. Suppose you had "HK568512" and "adam brown" in the logfile. These need to be combined if USERCASE is insensitive. > Does FILEALIAS do this too? (Decide that I really meant index.html if I > specify Index.html as the alias for a file?) > Yes, if CASE is insensitive. > > Maybe the original > > questioner would be better with USERREPALIAS. > > I'm the original questioner, and yes, USERREPALIAS does indeed give me > the case sensitive User Report. Sorry, I forgot you were the original questioner. I'm so used to you answering questions instead of asking them. :-) > But then I'm caught by the sorting > bug, because I need to use USERSORTBY ALPHABETICAL occasionally to get a > list of logonIDs that I don't have aliases for (they get grouped > together when I sort alphabetically). > If you're trying to use USERSORTBY ALPHABETICAL to sort upper-case usernames first when you've said that users are case insensitive, then I'm afraid it won't work! -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/analog-help@lists.isite.net/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
