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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 10:14:28 -0600
To: cygwin-digest-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
From: Dave Sherohman <dave AT bridgecom DOT com>
Subject: Re: cygwin Digest 4 Feb 2000 04:22:05 -0000 Issue 396
Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com, "Yunki Paik" <paik1 AT llnl DOT gov>

At 04:22 AM 2/4/2000 -0000, cygwin-digest-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com wrote:
>Subject: B20.1  NT long file question 

>When I vi a file, it does not recognize the file if the file name is long.
>However, if I use it 8.3 DOS name for it, it finds it.

Many versions of vi allow you to specify multiple files for editing.
Unfortunately, this feature is generally incompatible with filenames that
include spaces; 'vi "My file.txt"' will attempt to open two files, "My" and
"file.txt".

To verify whether this is the problem you're encountering, try a file named
something like
'My-really-long-file-name-which-may-or-may-not-work-with-vi.doc.junk.txt' -
not 8.3-compliant, but without spaces in the name.

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