changeset 1084:dcc5fe2863e8

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author Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
date Mon, 27 Oct 1997 04:59:25 +0000
parents 3f92402509d3
children 65f1d648c904
files lib/memcasecmp.c
diffstat 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/lib/memcasecmp.c
+++ b/lib/memcasecmp.c
@@ -39,7 +39,9 @@
 
 #include "memcasecmp.h"
 
-/* Like memcmp, but ignore differences in case.  */
+/* Like memcmp, but ignore differences in case.
+   Convert to upper case (not lower) before comparing so that
+   join -i works with sort -f.  */
 
 int
 memcasecmp (vs1, vs2, n)