Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/02/15/09:03:40
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: 14 February 2005 21:37
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Mark Paulus wrote:
>
> > My understanding of Windows implementation of Filesystems
> > is that they MIGHT preserve case, but they are not Case
> > sensitive. Which is apparently what lead to the whole thing
> > about creating managed filesystems, which not only preserve
> > case, but are also Case Sensitive (as opposed to case
> > sensitive). I would be really shocked if your mv AAA aaa worked
> > on an unmanaged filesystem, and if it did, could you verify what
> > kind of filesystem you are working on?
>
> I hope you're asking the original poster, as I've never
> claimed that "mv
> AAA aaa" worked for me (quite the opposite, in fact).
> Igor
Rather than get into purely theoretical arguments, I prefer to get empirical:
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C:\Documents and Settings\dk\test>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 942E-907E
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\dk\test
15/02/2005 10:28 <DIR> .
15/02/2005 10:28 <DIR> ..
15/02/2005 10:28 0 aaa
1 File(s) 0 bytes
2 Dir(s) 71,941,922,816 bytes free
C:\Documents and Settings\dk\test>ren aaa AAA
C:\Documents and Settings\dk\test>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 942E-907E
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\dk\test
15/02/2005 10:28 <DIR> .
15/02/2005 10:28 <DIR> ..
15/02/2005 10:28 0 AAA
1 File(s) 0 bytes
2 Dir(s) 71,941,922,816 bytes free
C:\Documents and Settings\dk\test>move AAA aaa
C:\Documents and Settings\dk\test>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 942E-907E
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\dk\test
15/02/2005 10:28 <DIR> .
15/02/2005 10:28 <DIR> ..
15/02/2005 10:28 0 aaa
1 File(s) 0 bytes
2 Dir(s) 71,941,922,816 bytes free
C:\Documents and Settings\dk\test>
C:\Documents and Settings\dk\test>bash
dk AT mace /win/c/Documents and Settings/dk/test> ls
aaa
dk AT mace /win/c/Documents and Settings/dk/test> mv aaa AAA
dk AT mace /win/c/Documents and Settings/dk/test> ls
AAA
dk AT mace /win/c/Documents and Settings/dk/test> mv AAA aaa
dk AT mace /win/c/Documents and Settings/dk/test> ls
aaa
dk AT mace /win/c/Documents and Settings/dk/test> uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 mace 1.5.13(0.116/4/2) 2004-12-01 10:15 i686 unknown unknown
Cygwin
dk AT mace /win/c/Documents and Settings/dk/test>
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That's NTFS, BTW, but it seems fine under both cygwin and DOS to me. The only
thing I couldn't get to work was "copy AAA aaa" or "cp AAA aaa"; that didn't
work under either.
cheers,
DaveK
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