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Subject: Re: edit Aux.pm under GNU emacs hangs
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On Apr  6 18:12, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> * On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:00:21PM +0100 Phil Betts wrote:
> > Marc Girod wrote:
> 
> > > I try to open a new file named 'Aux.pm' under GNU emacs, and this one
> > > hangs.
> [...]
> > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.dos-filenames
> 
> Is this still true for Cygwin 1.7? I mean, Win 9x support has been
> dropped, there is no reason not to use the \\.\... path specifiers,
> which would make this problem vanish.

Apart from the fact that you should use slashes instead of backslashes,
there isn't any need to use //./ in Cygwin 1.7.  Just open Aux.pm.

http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html


Corinna

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