From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: pwd and case
1 Jul 1997 16:29:40 -0700
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Robert Mecklenburg wrote:
> 
> We are attempting to port a complex build environment from Unix to NT
> and have a problem with pwd.  When I execute pwd (through a maze or
> emacs subshells, make, and bash) then case of the result is typically
> not what I expect.  For instance, pwd returns "//d/Users/mecklen"
> instead of "//D/Users/Mecklen".  Since I use sed and other text tools
> to compute other directory values this causes problems.  So a couple
> of questions:
> 
> Has anyone else seen this problem?
> How does pwd compute the case of the current directory?

If I were you, I would mount D: to /d and then refer to paths using
/d instead.  Alternatively, use UNC paths.  (The double backslash
shortcut may go away in the future).

This may also resolve your case problem.

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com
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