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        "'Aaron Schneider'"	<notstop AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 18:43:33 -0400
Subject: RE: Inconsistence on file operation when the name already exists with exe extension
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Aaron Schneider wrote: on July 08, 2012 at 4:19 PM
> Is this behavior intended? This is not unix like, the filename should be preserved as is.

This may help explain this behavior:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-exe


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