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Subject: Re: case sensitive path names
From: Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com>
To: Dietrich.Bollmann@mail.com
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Date: 01 Aug 2002 22:40:43 +1000
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On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 20:44, Dietrich Bollmann wrote:
> Dear friends,
>=20
> on one of my old unix backup CDs there are two folders
> called 'mail' and 'Mail'. I tried to change into
> 'mail' but always end up in 'Mail'...
>=20
> Reading the cygwin faq I was informed, that Win32
> doesn't make any case difference and therefore neither
> cygwin. Does this mean, that there is no way to read
> my good old 'mail'??!?
>=20
> Or better: Is there a way to read both of them, 'Mail'
> and 'mail' using cygwin (or whatever other program on
> Windows XP)??

AFAIK this capability is not in Cygwin itself. However XP has the
ability, but not exposed through the default UI.

Choice 1: install the MS POSIX toolkit and use 'cp'.

Choice 2:

You need to write a custom tool to copy the contents onto your
harddrive.=20

On Windows NT there is a flag that you can use when opening files called
(IIRC) 'FILE_POSIX_SEMANTICS'. Use that in a trivial copy program
(combined with FindFile()) and you should have no trouble recovering
your files.

Cheers,
Rob


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