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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:48:51 +0100
From: Paul Johnston <paj AT pajhome DOT org DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Release candidate 1: /etc/hosts
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Igor,

> How exactly are you proposing to modify cygpath?  cygpath translates
> windows paths to unix-style, and back.  There is nothing in the cygpath

Sorry, should have been clearer about this: modifying cygpath to add a feature to
get the correct case for a path. Perhaps we could figure a way to use "dir /b" -
but I'm sure other people will hit this same issue in the future and would
appreciate such a feature in cygpath. If you agree this is a good idea, I'm
prepared to do the groundwork.

Failing that, I think it would be ok to assume that the path will either be all
caps or all non-caps - corresponding to FAT or NTFS. Anyone tweaking the case of
such paths/files on NTFS quite deserves their fate!

BTW, I'm subbed to cygwin so you don't need to keep copying me on mails.

Paul


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