Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:23:26 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: AC_CYGWIN? Message-ID: <20030612112326.GQ30116@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <66F336FF8FD0484B943E0CF48D923C2C053680D4@CSCEX04> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:53:08PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Alexander Enchevich wrote: > Note this, BTW: > > copy hello .world > > dir > 12/06/03 12:47 0 .world > > so even Windows can handle .names :) It's just a long standing problem in the Windows Explorer which never really got the idea. The underlying OSes, even 95, have no problems with leading dot in filenames. I guess it was the "use a hammer instead of a scalpel" method where looking for the file system on which to create the file would have been sufficient. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/