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[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  5 05:02, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> On 5/03/2010 4:33 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> >Request case sensitivity from windows, and you have that feature back.
> 
> http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive
> [...]
> Many thanks for pointing it out. I was completely unaware that Windows
> was capable of case sensitive file naming. I must admit that my
> entrenched views of Windows capabilities in this area make me a little
> bit apprehensive of possible side-effects to turning this on. In your
> experience, are there any?

I'm using it all the time and have no problems, but, still, Win32
applications have no idea what to do with 2 files only differing
by case.  Best you keep directories with such files separate.

> Of course, I will still try it anyway.

That's the spirit!


Corinna