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On Sep  8 15:06, James Chase wrote:
> 
> >You *did* read
> >http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive
> >did you?  Especially the part concerning the registry.
> 
> Yes, I saw that but that's not an option for me at the moment. I

Why?  Windows still works as usual.  Only applications explicitely
asking for case-sensitivity, like Cygwin, will actually use it.

> suppose the heart of my question is: shouldn't mounting with posix=1
> enable the behavior I am trying to get? ie. separate files for
> different case file names or does that only work in conjunction with
> the registry tweak?

Case sensitivity requires OS support.  So the answer is yes.


Corinna

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