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On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 20:44, Dietrich Bollmann wrote: > Dear friends, > > 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'... > > 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'??!? > > 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. 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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