From:	win AT cic DOT net (Winona Strater)
Subject:	Re: B17 rename bug
9 Dec 1996 21:22:24 -0800 :
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Ahh thats a bug? I thought it was a feature ;) , that happens on NT3.51
also.

Win


Richard Donkin wrote:
> 
> Here's an entertaining bug that is presumably due to the Cygwin DLL
> considering 'foo' to refer to 'foo.exe' in order to be more Unix-compatible.
>   This is using B17 on Win95.
> 
> Note that 'remsync' did not exist at the start of this sequence:
> 
> $ mv remsync.exe remsync
> mv: `remsync.exe' and `remsync' are the same file
> 
> # Rename using temp filename as intermediary works OK
> $ mv remsync.exe remsync.foo
> $ mv remsync.foo remsync
> 
> I'm not sure how you could fix this without breaking something else, but it
> should be documented somewhere.
> 
> Richard
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