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 Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 08:53:41 -0400 From: Lester Ingber To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: case sensitivity and filenames Message-ID: <20030515125340.GA4036@ingber.com> Reply-To: Lester Ingber Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-URL-ALT: http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~ingber/ I keep seeing postings from experienced Cygwin developers that it is a nightmare to consider adding full case sensitivity to Cygwin. I also have Interix on my system, a (failed?) Microsoft attempt to introduce a gnu-based unix shell. Albeit is has limited tools, in fact it looks to me that it *does* respect true case sensitivity. For example, I have untarred directories that contain files/directories differing only by the case of the names, etc. If so, then why can't Interix provide a template for this feature? Lester -- Prof. Lester Ingber ingber AT ingber DOT com ingber AT alumni DOT caltech DOT edu www.ingber.com www.alumni.caltech.edu/~ingber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/