X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
From: mwoehlke <mwoehlke@tibco.com>
Subject:  Re: Handling special characters (\/:*?"<>|) gracefully
Date:  Tue, 23 May 2006 14:16:47 -0500
Lines: 17
Message-ID: <e4vn30$s0a$1@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <2ED63F31975E1E428B3732A68923F480ECA6FC@rain.scur.com>
Mime-Version:  1.0
Content-Type:  text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding:  7bit
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060420)
In-Reply-To: <2ED63F31975E1E428B3732A68923F480ECA6FC@rain.scur.com>
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie.com@cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe@cygwin.com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help@cygwin.com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com

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. :-)


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/