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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:54:53 -0800
To: Lloyd Wood <l DOT wood AT eim DOT surrey DOT ac DOT uk>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Tim Prince <tprince AT computer DOT org>
Subject: Re: Cygwin preserving filenames ending in period
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At 09:08 AM 2/25/2005, Lloyd Wood wrote:

>  a file named 'Makefile_defs.' was created by
>cvs, but eventually got packaged up as 'Makefile_defs' causing build
>errors on platforms other than Cygwin.
>
>Why does Cygwin do this?
>

Short answer:  cygwin doesn't do it, cygwin accepts Windows behavior, which 
is incompatible with linux by design.
Slightly longer answer:  you should be able to find this answered in the 
mail list archives.


Tim Prince 


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