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Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 08:53:41 -0400
From: Lester Ingber <ingber AT ingber DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: case sensitivity and filenames
Message-ID: <20030515125340.GA4036@ingber.com>
Reply-To: Lester Ingber <ingber AT ingber DOT com>
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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

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