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Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 12:01:18 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Noel L Yap <yap_noel AT jpmorgan DOT com>
CC: Cygwin AT Sourceware DOT Cygnus DOT Com, Kirben AT Bigfoot DOT Com
Subject: Re: cvs available for test
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Noel -
  You're missing the point. It's not the uppercase/lowercase/mixed-case
problem. It's *ILLEGAL* names like AUX, PRN, etc. Go ahead, if you want
to hang your system, create a file called 'aux' using cygwin, and then
try to access it using explorer (if you get that far)...

--Chuck


Noel L Yap wrote:
> 
> I forgot to give a viable solution to the problem.  Use CVS's hooks to do a
> case-insensitive compare for new filenames to make sure they're unique.  As for
> the CVS subdirectories,you can have them be .CVS (or whatever suits your taste)
> by editing config.h or cvs.h (I forget exactly which one).
> 
> Noel
> 
> Noel L Yap
> 2000.08.01 08:27
> 
> To:   cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu
> cc:   Cygwin AT Sourceware DOT Cygnus DOT Com, Kirben AT Bigfoot DOT Com
> Subject:  Re: cvs available for test  (Document link not converted)
> 
> That would be a really bad idea.  I use Cygwin executables on file systems that
> can fully support upper- and lower-case filenames.
> 
> Noel
> 
> cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu on 2000.08.01 00:38:06
> 
> To:   cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com, kirben AT bigfoot DOT com
> cc:   (bcc: Noel L Yap)
> Subject:  Re: cvs available for test
> 
> Charles Wilson wrote:
> >
> > --Forwarded to the list for Travis Howell <kirben AT bigfoot DOT com>--
> >
> > Any chance of making cvs avoid/skip directory/file names not allowed
> > under
> > Windows ? one CVS I know (eggdrop1.5) uses an AUX directory so cvs under
> > cygwin fails to work with it.
> > Check out http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q216/6/54.ASP
> >
> 
> Well, that's a filesystem issue and is really beyond the scope of what I
> was trying to do. Is it possible that cygwin's file access functions
> should transparently munge these troublesome, illegal names -- aux, prn,
> etc? Or is that a really really bad idea?
> 
> --Chuck
> 
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