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Date:	Wed, 14 May 2003 15:15:56 -0700
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From:	Randall R Schulz <rschulz AT sonic DOT net>
Subject:	Re: case sensitivity and filenames
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Frank,

Welcome to Windows.

For all practical purposes, Windows file systems record alphabetic case 
when files and directories are created, but do not distinguish 
alphabetic case when matching a name with an existing file system entry.

Randall Schulz


At 14:55 2003-05-14, Frank wrote:
>I'm having trouble with cygwin seeing the difference between
>"config" which is a directory and "Config" which is a file.
>anyone know how I can get around this. The problem arises when I
>use cvs to check a source tree out of it's repository remotely...


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