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Subject: RE: deleting a file ending with a dot
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:26:55 +0100
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Are You shure the filename ends with that dot? Maybe there are unreadable chars appended, so Yozu never gave the correct filename when deleting...
I tried to create a file ending with a dot and did not succeed.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of Baurjan Ismagulov
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:57 PM
> To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
> Subject: deleting a file ending with a dot
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> tar has created a file ending with a dot, and now I can't delete it
> (I've tried rm, del in cmd, explorer, far, unlink call with 
> and without
> -mno-cygwin). What would you suggest before I search an 8-GB 
> volume for
> the directory entry with a disk editor? I would appreciate any help
> (pointers to NTFS directory structure description also welcome).
> Scandisk didn't report any problems.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Baurjan.
> 
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