New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Thu Jul 31 06:57:00 GMT 2008


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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
| - Creating filenames with special DOS characters '"', '*', ':', '<',
|   '>', '|' is supported.
|
| - Creating files with special DOS device filename components ("aux",
|   "nul", "prn") is supported.
|
| - File name are case sensitive if the OS and the underlying file system
|   supports it.  Works on NTFS and NFS.  Does not work on FAT and Samba
|   shares.  Requires to change a registry key (see the user's guide).
|   Can be switched off on a per-mount base.

But does/will setup.exe know what to do with a package containing such
filenames?


Yaakov
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