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by ComputerGuru 3734 days ago
It's case sensitive :-(

That's worse than it sounds thanks to Wikipedia's archaic capitalization constraints, so it's neither going to be the "official" case-sensitive name of the page nor the Title case, you could very well need to do SomeTHING like_THIS to read an article.... and then it gave me the German version for some reason?

I wish it had search.

    >>> easybcd
    easybcd
    Sorry! Could not fetch "easybcd" for you.
    No worries. There are lots of other pages to read.
    Pick a different title.


    >>> Easybcd
    Easybcd
    Sorry! Could not fetch "Easybcd" for you.
    No worries. There are lots of other pages to read.
    Pick a different title.


    >>> EasyBCD
    EasyBCD
    EasyBCD

    EasyBCD ist ein Programm, das von NeoSmart Technologies entwickelt wurde.
    Es wird zum Konfigurieren und Anpassen des von Microsoft entwickelten
    Bootloaders Bootmgr verwendet, der Teil der Boot Configuration Data (BCD)
    der Windows-Versionen Windows Vista und jünger ist. EasyBCD kann benutzt
    werden, um eine Multi-Boot-Konfiguration zwischen diesen und vorhergehenden
    Versionen von Windows, sowie Linux, BSD und Mac OS X zu erstellen.
    ....
4 comments

Interestingly, the first character doesn't seem to matter. "easyBCD" and "EasyBCD" return the same results. And for some things all lower case appears to work:

"USB", "uSB", "usb", "Usb" all work, "usB" does not. I agree that case sensitivity is pointless here.

> and then it gave me the German version for some reason?

It probably associated your location with Germany. It gave me the English version.

Try:

:use en.wikipedia.org

> I wish it had search.

My first lookup (which I've already forgotten) gave me "results" but it could have been a disambiguation page.

> It's case sensitive :-(

Also IP-protocol sensitive :(

  $telnet -6 telnet.wmflabs.org
  telnet: could not resolve telnet.wmflabs.org/telnet: Name or service not known
No AAAA RR.
Sadly, this does seem to be a limitation of our labs infrastructure. :(
Fixed!
somewhat surprisingly easyBCD works