case sensitivity and filenames

Randall R Schulz rschulz@sonic.net
Wed May 14 22:40:00 GMT 2003


Frank,

Welcome to Windows.

For all practical purposes, Windows file systems record alphabetic case 
when files and directories are created, but do not distinguish 
alphabetic case when matching a name with an existing file system entry.

Randall Schulz


At 14:55 2003-05-14, Frank wrote:
>I'm having trouble with cygwin seeing the difference between
>"config" which is a directory and "Config" which is a file.
>anyone know how I can get around this. The problem arises when I
>use cvs to check a source tree out of it's repository remotely...


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