Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3C551AC6.6090408@mpq.mpg.de> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:32:54 +0100 From: Volker Quetschke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-DE; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: de-DE MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: FAQ topic "What about special DOS devices" References: <012201c1a6cd$c32c9570$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <012801c1a6cd$d4ffe090$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <050c01c1a6cf$0b871dd0$0d00a8c0@mchasecompaq> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi >>From: "Robert Collins" >>To: >>Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 11:58 AM >>Subject: FAQ topic "What about special DOS devices" >> >> >> >>>Can we add "(i.e. comX, lptX, aux)" >>> >> ^ to the title of the question >> > > I think that would confuse the people that don't already know about the > problem. "com1, com2, lpt1, aux" are more concrete and are more likely to > be found by a search. Maybe it would also be nice to add a small warning that filenames with colons (":") are not possible with cygwin (because they are not possible in windows). Unfortunately they are quite common in bsd-ports with patches. Volker -- 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/