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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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