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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:49:16 -0400
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On 10/16/2013 5:37 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote:
> I want to reinstall cygwin but I cannot remove the root directory
> because of this file:
> C:\cygwin64\usr\share\texmf-dist\doc\latex\hausarbeit-jura\README.
> It has very strange properties: when I right click on it
> Properties/Security, this is what I get: “The requested security
> information is either unavailable or can't be displayed”

There is an upstream packaging bug that caused two copies of the README 
file to be installed, one of which is called "README." (including the 
dot).  I guess Windows is confused by whatever Cygwin does to allow file 
names to include a dot.  But you can delete the file from a Cygwin bash 
shell.

Ken

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