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Re: case sensitivity and filenames

From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz at sonic dot net>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:15:56 -0700
Subject: Re: case sensitivity and filenames

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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