True case-sensitive filenames

Gerald S. Williams gsw@agere.com
Mon Jan 20 19:13:00 GMT 2003


Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
> See my previous message - MoveFile("asdf", "ASDF") will delete existing
> file "AsDf".

I see. Perhaps another possibility would be to create a hardlink
and then delete the old file. You couldn't use the CreateHardLink()
function, since it has the same case problems (and is NT5+ only),
but there are other ways (http://www.mvps.org/win32/ntfs/lnw.html,
for example--I think U/Win does something similar). You can always
fall back on the copy/delete mechanism, which appears to be there
for Win95 anyway.

-Jerry



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