From:	GMurray AT cware DOT co DOT uk (Graham Murray)
Subject:	RE: Case sensitivity in filenames
7 Jan 1999 09:31:21 -0800 :
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To:	"'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

	>Letting CygWin think that NTFS is case-sensitive is to be too
close to
	>UNIX, as this is a false assumption. Its a lot better to have
CygWin be
	>case-preserving but case insensitive as soon as a filename is
concerned.

	Is this a false assumtion? I thought that NTFS is case
sensitive, but it is the Win32 subsystem (in particular the descendents
of the DOS find-first & find-next calls) which isn't.
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