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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:27:40 +0200
Message-Id: <200412291927.iBTJRegp028989@beta.mvs.co.il>
From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud AT unix DOT mvs DOT co DOT il>
To: "Mikael Aesberg" <mikas493 AT student DOT liu DOT se>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Three questions
In-reply-to: <20041229154402.GG21682@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> (message from Christopher Faylor on Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:44:02 -0500)
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On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:44:02 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> >Third: I tried removing an the .exe-extension from a file by issuing:
> >$ mv tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb.exe tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb
>
> $ mv tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb.exe tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb.

Actually, this does not work (cygwin1.dll 1.5.12(0.116/4/2)), with
the same error as without the extra dot, but the following does work:
$ mv tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb.exe another-name
$ mv another-name tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb
no extra dot needed.

Ehud.


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