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Can UWIN handle upper and lower case distinction?

April 26, 2017Case lower Upper uwin

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Can UWIN handle upper and lower case distinction?

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Case distinction is not handled by default, but any part of the file system can be mounted as case sensitive both in Windows NT/XP and Windows 95/98 using loop back mounts. The performance of the system might be impacted somewhat and the names for some files might be different in UWIN than with the native system. • Are UNIX ttys and links supported? Yes, but they are not accessible outside UWIN. Hard links are supported for Windows NT/2000/XP and Windows 95/98 but are accessible outside UWIN only on Windows/NT NTFS file systems. Symlinks are accessible as shortcuts outside of UWIN. • Are tape devices supported? Tape devices are supported for Windows NT/2000/XP only. You can use the tar command to create and restore tape archives. • Are ptys supported? Yes. The master pty is /usr/dev/ptym[0-9A-F] and the slave pty is /usr/dev/ptys[0-9A-F]. • Does UWIN work with Samba? Yes, UWIN will work with the Samba file system but on some versions of Samba file permissions are not supported. • Is th