Re: cygwin case-sensitivity: more picky than linux, by default/w no option?

[Huang Bambo <bambo dot huang at gmail dot com>]

cygwin is more like RedHat than Suse and there's many diffirence
between diffirent linuxes

2010/7/14 Linda Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>:
> How many different versions of 'man' are there, anyway?
>
> I've always wondered why cygwin's was so different from the few
> linux versions I've seen -- bug especially in this sense.
>
> How is it that cygwin's manpages are case sensitive? ?Aren't they
> stored in files on a case-insensitive file system that should be able
> to find file-based man pages no matter what case you type in?
>
> The reason I ask, is that on linux, not only does the man program
> have a "-i" option to ignore case, but its also the default!
>
> So maybe cygwin could catchup to linux in this regard and go for ease of
> use?
>
> From the SuSE linux manpage for "man", regarding the "-i" option.
>
> ? ? ?-i, --ignore-case
> ? ? ? ? ? ? Ignore case when ?searching ?for ?manual ?pages.
> ?This ?is ?the default.
>
> But cygwin, it's not even an option to ignore case?
> I'm almost wondering if someone switched the man programs on the
> two OS's...;-)
>
> Very weird.
> Think it's possible to get the cygwin version 'enhanced'?
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