Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date:	Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:01:14 +0200
From:	Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr AT ata DOT cs DOT hun DOT edu DOT tr>
To:	cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Subject:	Re: deleting a file ending with a dot
Message-ID:	<20040116140112.GD28749@ata.cs.hacettepe.edu.tr>
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
References:	<D7FBE8A336018A4EB5EBDC6C898821930536E3BD AT HUELVA DOT belgium DOT fhm DOT de>
Mime-Version:	1.0
In-Reply-To:	<D7FBE8A336018A4EB5EBDC6C898821930536E3BD@HUELVA.belgium.fhm.de>
User-Agent:	Mutt/1.5.4i
X-IsSubscribed:	yes

Hello, Morche!

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:26:55PM +0100, Morche Matthias wrote:
> Are You shure the filename ends with that dot? Maybe there are unreadable chars appended, so Yozu never gave the correct filename when deleting...

ls |od -ctu1 shows:
0000000   c   a   c   h   e   d   m   e   t   r   i   c   s   .  \n
         99  97  99 104 101 100 109 101 116 114 105  99 115  46  10
0000017

Far and explorer do not ask for the name, I just point and click.


> I tried to create a file ending with a dot and did not succeed.

I've created it on ext2, tar it, then untar to ntfs.


With kind regards,
Baurjan.

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -