From: Paul DOT Moore AT uk DOT origin-it DOT com (Moore, Paul) Subject: RE: Case sensitivity in filenames 4 Jan 1999 05:33:46 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "'Larry Hall'" Cc: "'noer AT cygnus DOT com'" , "'Gnu Win32'" Ugh. Frankly, given that the Win32 filesystems cannot (except in a peculiar subcase of NTFS designed to support the POSIX subsystem) distinguish filenames which differ only in case, I view this as an essential aspect of ANY tool running under Windows. (Unix compatibility or no). Regrettably, I think this blows cygwin out of the water for me, yet again... Paul. >---------- >From: Larry Hall[SMTP:lhall AT rfk DOT com] >Sent: 23 December 1998 18:22 >To: Moore, Paul >Subject: Re: Case sensitivity in filenames > >You're not missing anything. The tools are case-sensitive. They are >a straight port from the ones provided on UNIX platforms. More work >would need to be done on the tools and/or cygwin to make them be >otherwise. I agree that this is a good thing to state in the FAQ. >You might suggest it directly to noer AT cygnus DOT com. > >Larry > >"Moore, Paul" wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I can't believe that this isn't a FAQ, but I've looked and can't find >> it. I've just installed cygwin B20.1, and it appears that the commands >> are treating files case-sensitively. In particular, if I do (from >> COMMAND.COM) "ls *.zip" I get a list of zip files in the current >> directory. But if I do "ls *.ZIP" I get nothing! Now, I understand that >> Unix filenames are case sensitive, but Windows ones aren't and so I >> would expect the command to produce the same results in both cases (or >> at least for there to be an option to make this happen). But it appears >> not... >> >> Can anybody suggest what I'm missing? My CYGWIN environment variable is >> not set at all. Should I set something in it? The documentation doesn't >> show anything which looks relevant. >> >> Thanks, >> Paul Moore >> >> - >> For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >> "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".