On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 09:50:22AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Did I make myself clear now?
Yep. Perfectly.
I think the discussion prior to your explication brings new meaning to
the term "case insensitivity".
cgf
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On May 27 16:36, Edward McGuire wrote:
> This note:
>
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive
>
> warns that you cannot have two filenames in the same directory that
> differ only by case, because of NTFS semantics.
No, it does not. *sigh*
I'm not a na
* Edward McGuire (Fri, 27 May 2011 16:36:06 -0500)
> The globbing is not where the confusion lies. This globbing:
>
> $ ls xwin*
> ls: cannot access xwin*: No such file or directory
>
> works as expected and did not confuse anybody.
Lee begs to differ: "Globbing is case sensitive [while ...]. An
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:38, Thorsten Kampe
wrote:
> This has nothing to do with Cygwin. You are (still[1]) confusing
> Cygwin and your shell. You would hugely benefit from gaining some
> basic knowledge about the tools you've been using since 1979.
>
> Your transcript was done in a shell called
* Lee D. Rothstein (Fri, 27 May 2011 11:53:16 -0400)
> Globbing is case sensitive while full command name invocation/full
> filename use is not. And, you may never have been confused by that,
> but I maintain it's very confusing.
This has nothing to do with Cygwin. You are (still[1]) confusing Cyg
On May 27 11:53, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
> > You got that wrong. The CYGWIN=glob:... option only affects how
> > globbing is performed on the command line arguments if the Cygwin
> > process has been started from a native Windows process. Full stop.
>
> I acknowledged *my* MISTAKE. I do so again.
> You got that wrong. The CYGWIN=glob:... option only affects how
> globbing is performed on the command line arguments if the Cygwin
> process has been started from a native Windows process. Full stop.
I acknowledged *my* MISTAKE. I do so again.
> Now, actual filename case sensitivity is an en
On May 26 15:57, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
> On 5/26/2011 3:35 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:28:53PM -0400, Lee Rothstein wrote:
> >>Issue: Possible confusing consequences of CYGWIN variable option:
> >>glob:noignorecase
> >>
> >>What follows is an edited transcript of m
On 5/26/2011 3:35 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:28:53PM -0400, Lee Rothstein wrote:
Issue: Possible confusing consequences of CYGWIN variable option:
glob:noignorecase
What follows is an edited transcript of my confusion about trying
to find the command "xwin" (and ev
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:28:53PM -0400, Lee Rothstein wrote:
>Issue: Possible confusing consequences of CYGWIN variable option:
>glob:noignorecase
>
>What follows is an edited transcript of my confusion about trying
>to find the command "xwin" (and eventual resolution), having
>forgotten about it
Issue: Possible confusing consequences of CYGWIN variable option:
glob:noignorecase
What follows is an edited transcript of my confusion about trying
to find the command "xwin" (and eventual resolution), having
forgotten about its capitalization. More specifically, I was
trying to figure out if i
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