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Subject: Re: Can someone explain the 'obvious' to me...or is it a Grimm's
Bro. tale...?
From: Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com>
To: "linda w (cyg)" <cygwin AT tlinx DOT org>
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Date: 10 Mar 2003 14:25:10 +1100

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On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 13:04, linda w (cyg) wrote:
>  Is that the only reason
> because some program may someday write into those directories and
> may write files with the same names into those directories?

In the mists of time, such programs *did* exist. IIRC MKS NutCracker was
one of them.

Rob
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