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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <_garbage_collector_ AT telia DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: can't open file for writing
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 21:12:19 +0200
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C Schreiner, ++++++-owner AT cygwin.+++ wrote:
> I can not save to a nonexistant file name under
> Cygwin, but I can under Windows.
> 
> When I type:
> 
>    cat "hello" > foo.txt

I suppose you MEANT "echo" here... otherwise:

$ cat "hello" >foo.txt
cat: hello: No such file or directory
$ echo "hello" >foo.txt                       
$ cat foo.txt
hello

> under Cygwin I get this error message:
> 
>    bash: foo.txt: No such file or directory
> 
> (unless foo.txt already exists in the current
> directory).  This only happens with network
> filesystems.
<SNIP>

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems            --72-->

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