Subject: RE: getting Perl5 to compile under gnu-win32
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5 Nov 1996 00:09:14 -0800
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On WinNT, you can use FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS to CreateFile() to get
case-sensitive behavior.

>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Andy Moreton [SMTP:[email-masked]]
>Sent:	Monday, November 04, 1996 2:22 AM
>To:	[email-masked]'
>Subject:	Re: getting Perl5 to compile under gnu-win32
>
>On Sunday, November 03 Stan Shebs wrote:
>
>>[email-masked] (Joe Marzot) writes:
>>
>>> hints/aux.sh
>>> 
>>> could not be created. I am guessing this has something to do with NT as
>>> I could not create a file with this name from the NT command prompt.
>>
>>Yes, we ran into a similar problem with a GCC source file named aux.h.
>>It seems that "aux" is disallowed as a filename.  We ended up renaming
>>the file to something else.
>>
>This is a feature of Windows - the DOS device names (CON, AUX, PRN, LPT, COM)
>are not allowed as part of a filename, whether you use an extension or not. 
>
>The filesystem does not support case-sensitive filenames either. On NT the
>names are stored case-sensitive, but the filesystem APIs are case insensitive
>:-(
>
>HTH
>
>	AndyM
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