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Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:56:59 -0500
- Subject: Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2
- References: <20080717155516.GC5675@calimero.vinschen.de>
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
| - Creating filenames with special DOS characters '"', '*', ':', '<',
| '>', '|' is supported.
|
| - Creating files with special DOS device filename components ("aux",
| "nul", "prn") is supported.
|
| - File name are case sensitive if the OS and the underlying file system
| supports it. Works on NTFS and NFS. Does not work on FAT and Samba
| shares. Requires to change a registry key (see the user's guide).
| Can be switched off on a per-mount base.
But does/will setup.exe know what to do with a package containing such
filenames?
Yaakov
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