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Re: NTFS Case-Sensitive Filenames


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?)



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