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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject: Re: file name case sensitivity
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:59:21 +0100
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* Corinna Vinschen (03-02-25 12:51 +0100)
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:42:02PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>> * Corinna Vinschen (03-02-25 12:20 +0100)
>>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:09:46AM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>>>> * Christopher Faylor (03-02-25 06:06 +0100)
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 02:48:05PM +1000, John Williams wrote:
>>>>>> Is there a way to enable case sensitivity in filenames under Cygwin?
>>>>> 
>>>>> No there isn't.  Sorry.
>>>> 
>>>> What about "SET CYGWIN=check_case:strict"?
>>> 
>>> It's a hack.
>> 
>> I knew you were a hacker... ;-) . But is it "working" reliably? And if 
>> not - why is it mentioned in the Cygwin documentation about the CYGWIN 
>> environment variable?
> 
> - It's not changing the case insensitivity of the underlying FS.

Yes, of course.

> - Therefore it only fakes case insensitivity in the API so it's
>   reliability is restricted.

Yes, but in my opinion it could be of use to John Williams because he 
wanted to "case sensitivity in filenames under Cygwin".

I don't know, so he might try or not.

Thorsten
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