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Re: Release candidate 1: /etc/hosts


Hi

> 2) CYGWIN="check_case:strict"
> As I suspected earlier, this fails -- the links are created, but an
> attempt to cat the files results in "no such file or directory", and an
> attempt to save the file after editing results in a write error.  On my
> Windows 98, cygwin interprets the filenames for c:\windows\hosts, etc, as
> all caps.  I don't know how important this is to pursue.

Ah, I bet NT based ones would do also - if you were using the FAT file system.

I think this problem needs to be dealt with... and I'm starting to think that
modifying cygpath would be the cleanest way to achieve this.

Paul


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