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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Joe Smith" Subject: Re: Cannot write files if they are hidden Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:58:21 -0400 Lines: 6 Message-ID: References: <42E11E4C.3090406@hones.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes I seccond the motion that the windows hidden attribute be ignored. I suspect that nearly every user on the list has Explorer.exe set to show hidden files. Sice Cygwin is very useful for system administrators, and they almost always leave hidden files visable, it makes no sense to treat these files in any special way. (Assming that cygwin does). -- 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/