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: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:01:14 +0200 From: Baurjan Ismagulov To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: deleting a file ending with a dot Message-ID: <20040116140112.GD28749@ata.cs.hacettepe.edu.tr> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-IsSubscribed: yes Hello, Morche! On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:26:55PM +0100, Morche Matthias wrote: > Are You shure the filename ends with that dot? Maybe there are unreadable chars appended, so Yozu never gave the correct filename when deleting... ls |od -ctu1 shows: 0000000 c a c h e d m e t r i c s . \n 99 97 99 104 101 100 109 101 116 114 105 99 115 46 10 0000017 Far and explorer do not ask for the name, I just point and click. > I tried to create a file ending with a dot and did not succeed. I've created it on ext2, tar it, then untar to ntfs. With kind regards, 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/