Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com To: jmerz42@earthlink.net Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: OT pondering (WAS: Re: Trailing Periods on File Names) References: <4.3.1.2.20010405144831.021f9008@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <3ACCC15F.20606@earthlink.net> From: Andrew Markebo Date: 05 Apr 2001 21:09:54 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3ACCC15F.20606@earthlink.net> Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii / Jonathon Merz wrote: |[...] | I agree with that, having seen this before, but I am curious... It | seems that such functionality did not get there by accident (I cannot | think of a way to ignore characters in a filename without some _extra_ | coding), so it must have been done for some purpose. Yet I cannot for | the life of me imagine what benefit this produces, or what fault it | would circumvent. Anyone have ideas as to this? Uh.. say something 'rational' microsoft has done?? :-) Isn't windows 9x one of the great accidents of today?? ;-) /Andy -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple