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 From: "Tony Arnold" To: Subject: RE: 1.3.4: Filenames ending with a dot Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:39:50 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 X-Authenticated-Sender: Anthony C Arnold, Tony Arnold from aca-vnt.mcc.ac.uk (acavnt) [130.88.201.150] X-Authenticated-From: Tony.Arnold@man.ac.uk Kandziora, > there may be a problem with cygwin's handling of filenames: Files with any > number of dots at the end are referred to be the same with no dots at the > end at all. E.g. > > echo Hello >a > echo World >a.... I think its a Windows problem. Try the same thing from a command prompt window (aka DOS box) and you get the same result! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, Deputy to the Head of COS Division, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E-mail: tony.arnold@man.ac.uk, Home: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/