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Date:	Wed, 8 Sep 2004 07:29:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:	C Schreiner <caschreirc AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	RE: can't open file for writing
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Yes, I meant "echo":

prompt> echo "hello" > foo.txt
bash: foo.txt: No such file or directory

Also, checking my records, I did not have this problem
with the current cygwin release as of last February
(2004); the problem only began happening when I
upgraded in August to Cygwin 5.1 NT with cygwin DLL
1.5.10.

Did something change in Cygwin that could be affecting
this (even if it is not Cygwin's fault)?  Is is
possible I have some libraries out of sync?




--- Hannu E K Nevalainen
<_garbage_collector_ AT telia DOT com> wrote:

> C Schreiner, ++++++-owner AT cygwin.+++ wrote:
> > I can not save to a nonexistant file name under
> > Cygwin, but I can under Windows.
> > 
> > When I type:
> > 
> >    cat "hello" > foo.txt
> 
> I suppose you MEANT "echo" here... otherwise:
> 
> $ cat "hello" >foo.txt
> cat: hello: No such file or directory
> $ echo "hello" >foo.txt                       
> $ cat foo.txt
> hello
> 
> > under Cygwin I get this error message:
> > 
> >    bash: foo.txt: No such file or directory
> > 
> > (unless foo.txt already exists in the current
> > directory).  This only happens with network
> > filesystems.
> <SNIP>
> 
> /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer
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