Subject: RE: Case sensitivity in filenames
From: [email-masked] (Graham Murray)

7 Jan 1999 09:31:21 -0800
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To: "[email-masked]'" <[email-masked]>

	>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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