Subject: Re: file system bogosity?
From: [email-masked] (Larry Hall RFK Partners Inc)

31 Jul 1998 22:35:38 -0700
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To: Charles Randall <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]

At 03:07 PM 7/30/98 -0600, Charles Randall wrote:
>Is there a plan to address file system bogosity such as the following?
>
>	bash-2.01$ mkdir t
>	bash-2.01$ cd t
>	bash-2.01$ ls
>	bash-2.01$ touch bozo
>	bash-2.01$ ls
>	bozo
>	bash-2.01$ ls bozo.
>	bozo.
>	bash-2.01$
>
>Note the "." on the end of the last ls command. That file doesn't exist.
>
>Charles

You can thank the Windows/DOS world for that one.  I'm not sure there will
be a realistic and acceptable way to make files that end with a dot distinct
in Cygwin32...

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