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Upper/lower case filenames.


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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Ron House     house@usq.edu.au
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