Frank, Welcome to Windows. For all practical purposes, Windows file systems record alphabetic case when files and directories are created, but do not distinguish alphabetic case when matching a name with an existing file system entry. Randall Schulz At 14:55 2003年05月14日, Frank wrote: >I'm having trouble with cygwin seeing the difference between >"config" which is a directory and "Config" which is a file. >anyone know how I can get around this. The problem arises when I >use cvs to check a source tree out of it's repository remotely... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/