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RE: Case insensitivity
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "B. Joshua Rosen" <bjrosen at polybus dot com>,"cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:33:19 +1000
- Subject: RE: Case insensitivity
> -----Original Message-----
> From: B. Joshua Rosen [mailto:bjrosen@polybus.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:25 AM
> To: cygwin
> Subject: Case insensitivity
>
>
> I'm in the process of porting my CAE tool (hdlmaker) to
> Cygwin and I've run into a problem with case sensitivity, or
> to be precise the lack of case sensitivity in the file
> system. I have a number of files that are paired as upper and
> lower case versions, i.e. FD.v and fd.v. In the Unix world
> this is no problem but in the Cygwin environment the files
> conflict.
IIRC they also conflict on MacOSX.
... so you need to go through the huge effort of converting my library
to
make it case independent.
Rob
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