Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3986542E.93222F18@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 00:38:06 -0400 From: Charles Wilson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com, kirben@bigfoot.com Subject: Re: cvs available for test References: <398627B5.B7C15947@ece.gatech.edu> <398653B2.5FF945B8@ece.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Charles Wilson wrote: > > --Forwarded to the list for Travis Howell -- > > Any chance of making cvs avoid/skip directory/file names not allowed > under > Windows ? one CVS I know (eggdrop1.5) uses an AUX directory so cvs under > cygwin fails to work with it. > Check out http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q216/6/54.ASP > Well, that's a filesystem issue and is really beyond the scope of what I was trying to do. Is it possible that cygwin's file access functions should transparently munge these troublesome, illegal names -- aux, prn, etc? Or is that a really really bad idea? --Chuck -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com