[darcs-users] Huge mess moving to mac

[Yitzchak Gale]

Max Battcher wrote:
>> Microsoft's Windows Services For Unix...
>> Although, the Windows API... will barf at differently cased files.

I wrote:
> Are you sure these work? AFAIK, case sensitivity is
> built in to NTFS and FAT. So it is cygwin and SFU that will
> barf, not the WinAPI.

Hmm, maybe Max is right.

"...the Windows 95/98/NT family of operating systems
resolves files in a case-insensitive manner, even though
the files are represented it in a case-sensitive manner."

Using Samba, by Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown,
and Peter Kelly, O'Reilley 1999.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch05_04.html

I guess you might be able to convince FAT32 to store
two files with the same nice name but different
underlying 8.3 names. Don't know about NTFS.

Anyway, as Max pointed out, most things on Windows would
behave badly even if you manage to do that, so it
doesn't sound to me like a workable solution.

Regards,
Yitz