On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is a file-handling problem that I have noticed in other contexts too. > > Windows 98/SE is good (faultless?) at preserving upper case and lower case > in filenames, whether long or short or with spaces. However, I have noticed > when moving devices back and forth between 98 and XP machines, that XP is > nothing like as careful, and that in circumstances that I have not yet > precisely identified, one can suddenly lose this distinction when all 8.3 > filenames that had been all lower case become all upper case. > > Mixtures of case in filenames are preserved (libW11.dll stays libW11.dll, > XWin.exe stays XWin.exe) and so are long file names (cygcrypto.dll stays > cygcrypto.dll) but in all other cases (less.exe, cygwin1.dll) the change > takes place (LESS.EXE, CYGWIN1.DLL). > > In an important respect this does not matter at all: Windows is daft enough > not to know there is a difference and so it does not notice it when seeking > and reading a file. Eg when starting Cygwin it does not matter that > cygwin1.dll has become CYGWIN1.DLL. But: Cygwin does notice, and once there, > ls cyg* presents a quite different response to ls CYG* (for instance). So > this is a very nasty occurrence, once it has happened. > > I appreciate that the list is well populated with traffic on the subject of > long and short filenames but I have not found the answers to the following: > (1) when moving devices between different OS as described, is there a > particular class of activity that will cause this transformation? (Maybe > something to do with pursuing activities in a XP Command Prompt window, but > I can't confirm this.) (2) assuming the activity is a useful one to be > continued, is there some protection that can be implemented against the > transformation taking place? > > Thank you. > Fergus
<http://www.thenakedpc.com/cgi-bin/annoyarchive.pl?read=3027>. You'll need to do this on the Win98 machine before copying to XP. Hope this helps. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/
