Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: Case insensitivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:33:19 +1000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "B. Joshua Rosen" , "cygwin" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g3P2Y5s14544 > -----Original Message----- > From: B. Joshua Rosen [mailto:bjrosen AT polybus DOT com] > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:25 AM > To: cygwin > Subject: Case insensitivity > > > I'm in the process of porting my CAE tool (hdlmaker) to > Cygwin and I've run into a problem with case sensitivity, or > to be precise the lack of case sensitivity in the file > system. I have a number of files that are paired as upper and > lower case versions, i.e. FD.v and fd.v. In the Unix world > this is no problem but in the Cygwin environment the files > conflict. IIRC they also conflict on MacOSX. ... so you need to go through the huge effort of converting my library to make it case independent. 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/