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Upper/lower case filenames.
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Upper/lower case filenames.
- From: Ron House <house at usq dot edu dot au>
- Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 03:05:59 +0000
Having just tried Cygwin, I notice that 8.3 filenames which are taken to
be lower case under Linux are taken as upper case under Cygwin. This
means that scripts such as "cp *.cpp ..." and makefiles don't work
unless edited. Is there any reason for this design choice?
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