Unwanted case-insensivity in file name globbing

[Paul]

Jan Bruun Andersen <jan_bruun_andersen <at> jabba.dk> wrote:
| Seems overly complicated for me. My current fstab looks like this:
| 
| # /etc/fstab
| #
| #    This file is read once by the first process in a Cygwin process tree.
| #    To pick up changes, restart all Cygwin processes.  For a description
| #    see https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
| 
| # Device-       Mount-          FS-type         Options                 
Ignored
| # name          point
| # ------------- --------------- ---------------
| ----------------------- --------------------
| 
| C:/Users        /home           ntfs            binary,posix=1,user     0 
0
| none            /               cygdrive        binary,posix=0,user     0 
0
| 
| If I remember correctly the cygdrive thing is what automatically maps
| all my C:. D:, E:, etc drives to /C, /D, E and so on.
| 
| The magic with posix is described here:
| https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
| 
|   posix=0   - Switch off case sensitivity for paths under this mount point
|      (default for the cygdrive prefix).
| 
|   posix=1   - Switch on case sensitivity for paths under this mount point
|      (default for all other mount points).

Thanks, Jan.  I was actually looking at that page, and totally glossed
over the posix switch.  Will try it (the machine is elsewhere).

I realize that cygdrive maps all the letter drives, but I'm trying to
cut down on the typed text.


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