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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject: Re: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:07:14 -0800
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elfyn-cygwin AT mail DOT exposure DOT org DOT uk wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Try to remember that cygwin is a unix emulation layer for windows that 
> tries to emulate unix in as many respects as possible. To change the 
> ls source to accomadate for something windows uses to hide files, 
> sometimes unknown from its users, would not be unix like.

Personally I like the idea. It could be implemented as yet another 
option that the user could choose to use but would be off by default. 
After all ps has the -W option which is distinctly Windows only, no?




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