From:	dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de
Subject:	Re: Alternate Mixed Case scheme?
4 Feb 1998 23:57:54 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<009C1570.E73FC960.182.cygnus.gnu-win32@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de>
To:	sam AT campbellsci DOT co DOT uk
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de

Hi Sam, you wrote:

: >This isn't perfect for everyone, but I don't think any solution would work
: >except perhaps to create an NT file system that supports mixed case.  :-)
: 
: 
: Ho ho!  And this would break a lot of NT software you can be sure!

IIRC, there's some POSIX mode open flag for excact case match and also
real hardlinks. Maybe it's only available using the POSIX subsystem,
but I think at least OpenNT can do it.
MS has forgotten real softlinks and gave us those nasty shortcuts instead,
when in reality the NT kernel structures have symlinks, e.g. A: to
\\DOSdevices\A or something like that...


Bye, Heribert (dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de)
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