Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: RE: NTFS Case-Sensitive Filenames Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:15:46 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-ID: content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: NTFS Case-Sensitive Filenames Thread-Index: AcD+pnX+jc7j+nKCQieY+UBao+rgAQAADAaA From: "Robert Collins" To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" , "Barubary" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id AAA27623 > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 8:11 AM > To: Barubary; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: NTFS Case-Sensitive Filenames > > > At 12:12 AM 6/23/2001, Barubary wrote: > >Is there any particular reason why Cygwin doesn't use NTFS's built-in > >support for case-sensitive filenames when it exists? > > > > Yes, Windows tools don't understand them. See the email archives if > you're interested in the details of previous discussions on this > subject. It actually hasn't come up in quite some time (years?) > Actually, it popped up about 3 months back IIRC. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/