From: lhall@rfk.com (Larry Hall RFK Partners Inc) Subject: Re: file system bogosity? 31 Jul 1998 22:35:38 -0700 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980731160434.009ca4a0.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: lhall@rfk.com (Larry Hall RFK Partners Inc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Charles Randall , gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 03:07 PM 7/30/98 -0600, Charles Randall wrote: >Is there a plan to address file system bogosity such as the following? > > bash-2.01$ mkdir t > bash-2.01$ cd t > bash-2.01$ ls > bash-2.01$ touch bozo > bash-2.01$ ls > bozo > bash-2.01$ ls bozo. > bozo. > bash-2.01$ > >Note the "." on the end of the last ls command. That file doesn't exist. > >Charles You can thank the Windows/DOS world for that one. I'm not sure there will be a realistic and acceptable way to make files that end with a dot distinct in Cygwin32... Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053 8 Grove Street (781) 239-1655 - FAX Wellesley, MA 02181 http://www.rfk.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".