Issue 68687 - allow mixed case extensions for dbase files
Summary: allow mixed case extensions for dbase files
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Base
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.3
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2006-08-16 18:15 UTC by andreschnabel
Modified: 2013-08-07 15:45 UTC (History)
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Description andreschnabel 2006-08-16 18:15:16 UTC 
Problem:
OOo Base recognizes only lowercase suffixes for dbase files (.dbf) on
non-Windows systems. This is confusing, as dbase files often have uppercase
extensions (DOS / Windows based dbase files don't care about that). Furthermore
this is inconsistent within OOo applications (e.g. Calc is able to import .DBF
files)

Possible solution:
Allow mixed case extensions for dbase files in Base. As this would have some
sideffects that may lead to data corruption we need to write a specification.

I'll write such a specification based on some e-mail discussions as follow-up of
issue 68249.
Comment 1 kpalagin 2007-11-07 07:42:36 UTC 
Dear developrs,
what is the current status of this issue?

Thanks a lot for your reponse.
WBR,
K. Palagin.
Comment 2 Frank Schönheit 2007-11-07 08:31:22 UTC 
No resources are scheduled for this ATM. Andre, still interested in writing the
spec?
Comment 3 andreschnabel 2010-10-21 14:51:26 UTC 
reassigned to default owner