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 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:40:36 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Three questions Message-ID: <20041229194036.GA26073@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <004801c4edbb$bde6bfe0$0200a8c0 AT mindcooler> <20041229154402 DOT GG21682 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <200412291927 DOT iBTJRegp028989 AT beta DOT mvs DOT co DOT il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200412291927.iBTJRegp028989@beta.mvs.co.il> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:27:40PM +0200, Ehud Karni wrote: >On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:44:02 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> >Third: I tried removing an the .exe-extension from a file by issuing: >> >$ 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. Hmm. Apparently this has been fixed in the latest snapshot. Hopefully it isn't just a lurking bug but is an actual fix. cgf -- 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/