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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: unable to edit/less dotted files, etc.
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:30:31 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Julian Opificius
> Sent: 19 October 2004 17:49

> I'm running v1.3 of Cygwin on Win2k on a laptop. 

  That is _years_ out of date.

> after the initial install, only later. I can list them with 
> ls -al, but 
> "vi .bashrc" opens up a new file, and less returns "No such file or 
> directory". The files are accessible under Win2k, and do not appear 
> corrupted.

  You've probably done something bad with the perms.  Or you installed
cygwin "Just for me", and now you've logged on as a different user.......?
The "file not found" error message can often be a result of an application
not realising that the file is there but the user doesn't have access
rights.

> Also, I now notice that other files - filenames that don't conform to 
> DOS 8.3 format - also are listable but not editable. I have a source 
> file "main.cas", which I can edit. I cp'd it to 
> "main_inst.cas", which 
> is listable with ls. But when I try to vi it, I get a new 
> file. mv'ing 
> it to maininst.cas renders it editable.

  Strange.  Still, there's not a lot of point reporting bugs in such an old
version of cygwin.  I can't reproduce anything like that with the current
version.

    cheers, 
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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