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From: John Williams <jwilliams AT itee DOT uq DOT edu DOT au>
Subject: Re: file name case sensitivity
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:29:20 +1000
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Gerald S. Williams wrote:
[snip]

> But as I said, this is OT for Cygwin. Even if it is added to
> Cygwin, it will almost certainly not be the default behavior.
> But for people like me trying to maintain Cygwin versions of
> Unix projects, it could be a real boon.

Indeed.  In my case, it would require modifications to cygwin's CVS 
tools, to use these special case sensitive semantics.  CVS puking on a 
sync operation was the first sign that anything was amiss for me.

Regards,

John



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