From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: "Steve Simon" Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 13:41:21 +0000 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: <201101051252.50718.dexen.devries@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Windows XP names Topicbox-Message-UUID: 90a3dcd8-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 You can create these objects using the CreateFile() API but you must add the Posix semantics flag. This will also allow you to create Makefile and makefile in the same directory. The problem is that you will not be able to access these files from Windows/MSDOS. Sadly this means that almost noone uses Posix semantics. -Steve