Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:01:43 +0300 From: Paul Sokolovsky X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.32) S/N AB51B607 Reply-To: Paul Sokolovsky X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <19667.000419@is.lg.ua> To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re[2]: 3 bugs In-reply-To: <38FD8878.87CE1817@crocodial.de> References: <38FD8878 DOT 87CE1817 AT crocodial DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Benjamin, Benjamin Riefenstahl 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 -- Paul Sokolovsky, IT Specialist http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=11135 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com