On Aug 29 10:22, Albrecht Schlosser wrote: > As I understand it, cygwin 1.7 won't support the old 1.5 managed > mounts, but will have another filename encoding for non-ASCII > filenames. IIRC, I read that all code for the old managed mounts > has been removed from cygwin 1.7. > > I'm just curious: How would users of managed mounts transform > their file(name) data to the new encoding, once they have > upgraded their cygwin version? Would they need to tar the > files _before_ upgrading and untar _after_ updrading? Will > there be a tool to convert the filenames?
There's no conversion path for now. If somebody is interested in writing a tool (a shell script would suffice) to convert managed mounted files to normal filenames, the effort would be highly appreciated. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
