Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <040c01c2d48f$a643fac0$ab7886d9@webdev> Reply-To: "Elfyn McBratney" From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" References: <20030214222838 DOT GA14308 AT redhat DOT com> <20030215000815 DOT 45437 DOT qmail AT web21403 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> <20030215003947 DOT GC17991 AT redhat DOT com> Subject: Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install? Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 01:14:54 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 > Actually, just creating a file named 'con' would probably be easier. Isn't 'con' a reserved name in windows? I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be able to extract it from the tar archive. Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/