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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:53:08 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald AT landheer DOT com>
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To: Alexander Enchevich <Alexander DOT Enchevich AT creo DOT com>
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Subject: RE: AC_CYGWIN? 
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Alexander Enchevich wrote:
> > Note, though, that there is absolutely no problem with the filename
> > ".mumbleinit" on Cygwin (I just did a `touch .mumbleinit` to make
> > sure)
> On Cygwin there isn't but on "Win" there is - try copying/renaming an
> existing file to something like .filename in Explorer (I tried it on
> Win2K). You will get an err. message informing you that "You must type a
> filename" :)
Yeah, I know. But:
	Cygwin != Windows && Windows == lame
from which we can deduce that
	Cygwin != lame
;)

Note this, BTW:
> copy hello .world
> dir
12/06/03  12:47                      0 .world

so even Windows can handle .names :)

rlc



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