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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:01:43 +0300
From: Paul Sokolovsky <paul-ml AT is DOT lg DOT ua>
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Hello Benjamin,

Benjamin Riefenstahl <benny AT crocodial DOT de> wrote:

BR> Hi all,

BR> For any file that Explorer can't deal with, try using this syntax in
BR> cmd.exe:

BR>   del \\?\c:\tmp\xxxxx

BR> The Prefix "\\?\" tells NT to do no parsing at all on the file name but
BR> pass it to the file system driver unchanged.

    Nice feature and fully answers original question. I'll try to
comment why it's hardly usable to make cygwin less fastidious about
filenames:

- it works only with nt, not 9x
- it requires full path
- it doesn't allow too much, e.g. it lets that dot at the end, but
not filename containing ':' or '*' .


BR> so long, benny

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Paul Sokolovsky, IT Specialist
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