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From: cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: case sensitivity on Windows 7 Enterprise with NTFS drive
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d153be5-2fe9-b6c5-d7fc-96508230b711@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMySpjTXuOSvxjE3+G7U=A9Z-4c7pKS=N3gHn-oN+in=HhHdZQ@mail.gmail.com>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-18 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-18 15:15 Matthias Herz
2016-11-18 15:32 ` cyg Simple [this message]
2016-11-18 15:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-11-18 15:51   ` cyg Simple
2016-11-18 16:33     ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-11-18 18:45 Matthias Herz

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