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Subject:	RE: Case insensitivity
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Date:	Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:33:19 +1000
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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"B. Joshua Rosen" <bjrosen AT polybus DOT com>, "cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: B. Joshua Rosen [mailto:bjrosen AT polybus DOT com] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:25 AM
> To: cygwin
> Subject: Case insensitivity
> 
> 
> I'm in the process of porting my CAE tool (hdlmaker) to 
> Cygwin and I've run into a problem with case sensitivity, or 
> to be precise the lack of case sensitivity in the file 
> system. I have a number of files that are paired as upper and 
> lower case versions, i.e. FD.v and fd.v. In the Unix world 
> this is no problem but in the Cygwin environment the files 
> conflict.

IIRC they also conflict on MacOSX. 
... so you need to go through the huge effort of converting my library
to 
 make it case independent.

Rob

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