X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:06:59 +0200 From: Spiro Trikaliotis To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <20090407100659.GB12558@trikaliotis.net> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <22909185.post@talk.nabble.com> <5E25AF06EFB9EA4A87C19BC98F5C875302FBD5C5@core-email.int.ascribe.com> <20090406161239.GA12558@trikaliotis.net> <20090406162026.GA8063@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090406162026.GA8063@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 87.163.251.113 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: an-cygwin@spiro.trikaliotis.net Subject: Re: edit Aux.pm under GNU emacs hangs X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:23:22 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail.trikaliotis.net) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Hello, * On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 06:20:26PM +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 6 18:12, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: > > * On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:00:21PM +0100 Phil Betts wrote: > > > Marc Girod wrote: [...] > > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.dos-filenames > > Is this still true for Cygwin 1.7? I mean, Win 9x support has been > > dropped, there is no reason not to use the \\.\... path specifiers, > > which would make this problem vanish. > > Apart from the fact that you should use slashes instead of backslashes, > there isn't any need to use //./ in Cygwin 1.7. Just open Aux.pm. I was asking if 1.7 supports the access to such files. As I was assuming that you would use the Win32 API, I asked why *Cygwin* does not use the \\.\... paths. > http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html Ok, so this is not an issue for 1.7 anymore. Good to know. Best regards, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://opencbm.sf.net/ http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ -- 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/