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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20041019211212.049efe88@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:15:53 -0400 To: Julian Opificius , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: unable to edit/less dotted files, etc. In-Reply-To: <4175AA17.3010703@barnlea.com> References: <4175AA17 DOT 3010703 AT barnlea DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 07:58 PM 10/19/2004, you wrote: >Thanks for the reply, Dave, > >Turns out 1.3 is just the version of the doc file, I'm up to date. Sorry >to give bum info. c:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll is dated 9/4/2004. > >I've just run a default install again, just in case. > >I haven't done anything with perms. I installed cygwin as administrator, >not "just for me". > >The behavior is the same, whether I log in using the Win2k admin account >or as my regular user account. > >I've just repeated the process: I can't edit a dotted file, even though >I can "ls" it, and I can't edit files that don't conform to 8.3. If I >rename files to 8.3, I can edit them. SO I don't think it has anything >to do with permissions. Let's start over. Read this: >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html We need the information it requests and we need a case to reproduce your behavior. Make sure all the tools you're using in this test case are indeed Cygwin versions. There's no reason that Cygwin apps would require 8.3 names. I think you're changing these files with some windows program which is mucking with the permissions on these files. But that's just a WAG. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/