[Wine] ElderScrolls - case-sensitivity, many of the same file

Zachary Goldberg zgold550 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 11 12:33:42 CDT 2008


On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:28 PM, vitamin <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
> Zachary Goldberg wrote:
>> On 8/11/08, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 9:46 AM, D3RGPS31 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Because, I'm not on windows, I'm on Linux using Wine, as you should know, Linux filenames are case-sensitive... Windows are not. As you look at my example, you'll see files, with the same names, different cases, being used. How is it decided which file will be used when the plugin for the application calls TX_SKIN?
>> >
>> > Right, but since you're using a windows application, you shouldn't
>> > have files with similar names (only different in casing). How did that
>> > occur? Different versions of the file, etc.?
>>
>>
>> I think he installed a plugin or a patch of some sort which was meant
>> to overwrite the file and would have in windows but whoever provided
>> the module used different casing.
>
>
> That should not happen and never does.


Why is that?  It seems completely possible as described above and...

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> I'm sure what he did is extracted files on Linux. In that case there is not much Wine can do about it.
>
>

Thats exactly as I described, a patch or plugin attempts to put in
some file (from an archive, extracted).

Am I missing something?



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