Well, hardly any of you are Unix users, I imagine, but Neil suggested:

>then use my local editor to do a global search. In "vi" the command
>/[Cc]hickadee
>will find the next occurence of either chickadee or Chickadee.
>the command
>/[Cc][Hh][Ii][Cc][Kk][Aa]
>will find Chickadee, chickadee, CHICKADEE, CHICKADEES, ChiCKaDee, etc.

You can also simply issue the command "set ignorecase", then

/chickadee

will find all permutations of cap/nocap chickadee in the file...

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>