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From: John Williams <jwilliams AT itee DOT uq DOT edu DOT au>
Subject: Re: file name case sensitivity
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 15:09:11 +1000
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Hi Elfyn,

> No. You can use the check_case option in the CYGWIN environment variable,
> but that'll only get you half way to what you want. Take a look at
> (<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>) to see how it works
> and how to use it.

Thanks for that.  As you predict, check_case can't undo the evil that is 
causing my problem in the first place.

My loathing goes in equal measures to Microsoft for failing after 20 
years to support case-sensitive file names, and whomever it was in the 
linux dev group who decided it would be a good idea to duplicate some 
files but only change the filename capitalisation...  bleughhh... the 
conspiracy theorist in me wonders if it was deliberate to kybosh those 
working under Windows... :O

Cheers,

John






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