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Re: NTFS Case-Sensitive Filenames
- To: "Barubary" <barubary at home dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: NTFS Case-Sensitive Filenames
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:10:42 -0400
At 12:12 AM 6/23/2001, Barubary wrote:
>Is there any particular reason why Cygwin doesn't use NTFS's built-in
>support for case-sensitive filenames when it exists?
Yes, Windows tools don't understand them. See the email archives if
you're interested in the details of previous discussions on this
subject. It actually hasn't come up in quite some time (years?)
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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