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Re: Handling special characters (\/:*?"<>|) gracefully


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.)

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Matthew
Interix, Sphinterix. Cygwin apps don't crash. :-)


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