On Sep 8 15:06, James Chase wrote: > > >You *did* read > >http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive > >did you? Especially the part concerning the registry. > > Yes, I saw that but that's not an option for me at the moment. I
Why? Windows still works as usual. Only applications explicitely asking for case-sensitivity, like Cygwin, will actually use it. > suppose the heart of my question is: shouldn't mounting with posix=1 > enable the behavior I am trying to get? ie. separate files for > different case file names or does that only work in conjunction with > the registry tweak? Case sensitivity requires OS support. So the answer is yes. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
