Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:34:10 +0100
From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Message-Id: <199912162334.AAA22576@acp3bf.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To: waynem1 AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com (Moorefield, Wayne (EXCHANGE:BNRTP:3X34))
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: NT and DJGPP
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Organization: RWTH Aachen, III. physikalisches Institut B
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

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. And even
if you're using it on an NT box, DJGPP still is a DOS program, running
in a (simulated) DOS machine. The only exception from this rule is the
command line argument handling. There, it makes a difference if you
compile a sourcefile foo.C or foo.c (the former is interpreted as C++,
the latter as C source).

Which brings me to a quickshot suggestion: maybe we should switch off
this particular C++ source file extension, in DOS ports of gcc, to
avoid this kind of surprise.

> 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.

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