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Re: case sensitivity on Windows 7 Enterprise with NTFS drive
- From: cyg Simple <cygsimple at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 10:03:28 -0500
- Subject: Re: case sensitivity on Windows 7 Enterprise with NTFS drive
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On 11/18/2016 7:59 AM, Matthias Herz wrote:
> Dear Cygwin Team,
>
> on my cygwin installation I have problems with case sensitivity although I
> did everything described here:
> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesens=
>
> I really need case sentitivity since I would like to use OpenFOAM (c++ cfd
> library) inside cygwin and OpenFOAM has a bunch of files like scalar.H and
> Scalar.H.
>
This is simply not a portable solution. You cannot have mixed case
filenames be different files on all systems. You should take this up
with the OpenFOAM development team.
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