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    Types: TextFile
    Names: »lcasep.8«

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└─⟦a0efdde77⟧ Bits:30001252 EUUGD11 Tape, 1987 Spring Conference Helsinki
    └─ ⟦this⟧ »EUUGD11/euug-87hel/sec8/smail/doc/lcasep.8«

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.TH LCASEP 8
.tr ~
.SH NAME
lcasep \- convert first field to lower case
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B lcasep
[ -f infile ] [ -o outfile ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Lcasep
converts all upper case characters
in the first field of each input line to lower case
and writes the line to its output.  By default,
.I lcasep
reads from the standard input and writes to the standard output.
Fields are delimited by a tab (ascii~0x9) character.
It is used in preparation for sorting
.IR smail "'s"
.I paths
database.  There is a bug in
.I sort -f
that causes non-alphanumeric keys to be sorted incorrectly.
Conversion before sorting avoids this bug.
.SH SEE ALSO
pathalias - by Peter Honeyman
.br
smail(8), paths(8), pathproc(8)
.SH VERSION
@(#)lcasep.8	2.1 smail 12/14/86