Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/04/11/01:28:33
[dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de] wrote:
>Hi Jason, you wrote:
>
>: Unfortunately, the magic meaning of those names is hardcoded into Win32.
>: There's no way to avoid the problem if you use Win32 APIs, which cygwin
>: does.
>
>Really? Although I haven't tried it, several people already wrote on this
>list that the workaround is using UNC \\.\ prefix!
>Sorry, I've no time for integrating that transparently into cygwin DLL!
\\.\ has been mentioned only to decribe how to get rid of files with
names like aux.txt, which have been created by accident.
It hasn't anything to do with Cygnus or cygwin, but is a "feature" of
the WinNT Posix subsystem.
Btw. could you please leave this list in the reply-to list of your mails.
It is quite annoying to always add this list manually for a reply.
And - please also stop sending replies to the list *and* the original
sender of a mail. I hate it to read messages twice - especially if they
belong to real big lists like this one.
>
>
>Bye, Heribert (dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de)
Bye.
Michael.
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