From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: New winsup snapshot 9/14/98
18 Sep 1998 19:17:35 -0700
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To: jeffdb AT goodnet DOT com, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 01:42:07AM +0000, jeffdb wrote:
>What's wrong with
>
>. -rwxrwxrwx bash.exe
>. lrwxrwxrwx bash.exe  bin sh
>Two spaces word separator 1 space dir separator for links or maybe # for dir seperator
>. drwxrwsrws usr/
>. cr--r--r-- tty1
>
>files begining with a .SPACE are illegal under win32 anyway
>try creating .SPACE.bashrc in explorer or a regular DOS box ;^)

If I understand what you're saying, you're proposing that
any filename created by cygwin be prepended by a bunch of
special characters?  That would completely break compatibility
with other non-cygwin packages.  I don't think we want to
do that.

Or are you suggesting that these filenames be created in
addition to regular filenames?

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