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Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:42:08 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Trailing Periods on File Names
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In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010405112848.03e55210@ks.teknowledge.com>; from rschulz@teknowledge.com on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:38:14AM -0700

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:38:14AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just discovered some odd behavior.
>
>Witness:
>
>% mkdir dir
>% cd dir
>% ls -l
>total 0
>% echo "I like Cygwin" >|File
>% ls -l
>total 0
>-rw-r--r--   1 randall  None           15 Apr  5 11:31 File
>%
>% ls -l File.
>-rw-r--r--   1 randall  None           15 Apr  5 11:31 File.
>%
>% ls -l File..
>-rw-r--r--   1 randall  None           15 Apr  5 11:31 File..
>%
>% ls -l File...
>-rw-r--r--   1 randall  None           15 Apr  5 11:31 File...
>%
>% ls -l File....
>-rw-r--r--   1 randall  None           15 Apr  5 11:31 File....
>%
>% diff File File.
>% diff File. File...
>
>
>Curious, no? Perhaps this is a side-effect of the potential aliasing of 
>suffix-less names and the same name with a ".exe" suffix?

It's windows behavior.

cgf

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