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Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2
On Jul 31 01:56, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
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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?
setup is a Win32 application. It won't know about this. Thou shalt
not create packages which rely on case-sensitivity as part of the
net distro.
Corinna
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