From:	Paul DOT Moore AT uk DOT origin-it DOT com (Moore, Paul)
Subject:	Strange ls -CF problem
23 Dec 1998 15:34:50 -0800 :
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Hi,
I've got a strange problem with ls -CF. I'm running ls on Windows 95,
from the COMMAND.COM prompt, not bash. My CYGWIN variable is unset.

If I do ls -CF C:/, then I get exactly the results I expect. However, if
I do ls -CF C:\, then ls runs VERY slowly, and produces a series of
lines

/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/BIN/LS.EXE: C:\/IO.SYS: No such device or
address
/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/BIN/LS.EXE: C:\/DRVSPACE.BIN: No such device
or address
/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/BIN/LS.EXE: C:\/WINDOWS: No such device or
address
/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/BIN/LS.EXE: C:\/CONFIG.OLD: No such device or
address
/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/BIN/LS.EXE: C:\/CONFIG.SYS: No such device or
address
/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/BIN/LS.EXE: C:\/LOGO.SYS: No such device or
address
/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/BIN/LS.EXE: C:\/Program Files: No such device
or address

Obviously, something is wrong here - but what, exactly?

Presumably support for backslashes in filenames is broken somehow. Is
this a known bug? It only appears when the directory name ends with a \
- ls -CF C:\WINDOWS works fine.

Paul Moore.
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