From: ddbui@cise.ufl.edu ("Daniel D. Bui")
Subject: RE: B17 rename bug
9 Dec 1996 17:04:23 -0800
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Richard Donkin writes:

> Here's an entertaining bug that is presumably due to the Cygwin DLL 
> considering 'foo' to refer to 'foo.exe' in order to be more Unix-compatible. 
> This is using B17 on Win95. 
>
> Note that 'remsync' did not exist at the start of this sequence:
>
> $ mv remsync.exe remsync
> mv: `remsync.exe' and `remsync' are the same file

This is not actually too much of of "Bug" per se.  I have been able
to rename .exe files by including the period, '.':

$ mv remsync.exe remsync.

FYI, I'm using B17 w/Win95.

-Daniel

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