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 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: deleting a file ending with a dot Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:26:55 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Morche Matthias" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Jan 2004 12:26:56.0091 (UTC) FILETIME=[079D0AB0:01C3DC2C] X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id i0GCQq61005280 Are You shure the filename ends with that dot? Maybe there are unreadable chars appended, so Yozu never gave the correct filename when deleting... I tried to create a file ending with a dot and did not succeed. > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com > [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf > Of Baurjan Ismagulov > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:57 PM > To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com > Subject: deleting a file ending with a dot > > > Hello, > > tar has created a file ending with a dot, and now I can't delete it > (I've tried rm, del in cmd, explorer, far, unlink call with > and without > -mno-cygwin). What would you suggest before I search an 8-GB > volume for > the directory entry with a disk editor? I would appreciate any help > (pointers to NTFS directory structure description also welcome). > Scandisk didn't report any problems. > > Thanks in advance, > Baurjan. > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/