From: "Moorefield, Wayne (EXCHANGE:BNRTP:3X34)" <waynem1 AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: NT and DJGPP
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:21:10 -0500
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> In article <38594CD2 DOT 5034DA6F AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com> you wrote:
> > I am using djgpp under NT and it works fine.  I have found one thing that
> > is a problem.  DJGPP is case sensitive.
>
> That almost certainly cannot be the case. DJGPP cannot be case
> sensitive, since *DOS* is not case-sensitive, to begin with.

Then why is DJGPP use / instead of \ to indicate a directory, DOS does not.
DJGPP takes things from the UNIX world into DOS.


> > I had installed djgpp under 98,
> > then I copied the files over to a drive with NT installed.  When I did this
> > all the filenames were lowercase and djgpp worked great.
>
> In what other situation did it *not* work that greatly? My guess would
> be you didn't follow the readme.1st advice regarding the choice of
> unzipper for unpacking DJGPP under NT, leading to long filename
> problems.
>

I used pkunzip first, then winzip, then the copying method.  For some reason
both pkunzip and winzip left the names all upercase and would not work.


>
> --
> Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
> Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

Wayne Moorefield