Handling special characters (\/:*?"<>|) gracefully

[mwoehlke]

Hicks,Mike wrote:
> There are a number of special characters that cannot be used in 
> filenames on the NTFS filesystem [snip]
> [much snipage]

You might want to play around with "managed mounts" ('man mount'), if 
they do what I think I heard they do (namely, "deal" with such things 
for you). Supposedly you can get case sensitivity - in the sense that 
'Readme' and 'README' can co-exist - out of them as well.

(Speaking of case sensitivity, is it a Windows limitation that Cygwin 
can't do this? I'm pretty sure it isn't an NTFS limitation, as Interix 
has true case-sensitivity.)

-- 
Matthew
Interix, Sphinterix. Cygwin apps don't crash. :-)


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