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 From: DJ Delorie Newsgroups: cygnus.gnu-win32 Subject: Re: Trailing Periods on File Names Date: 06 Apr 2001 14:35:12 -0400 Organization: Red Hat, Inc Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E267@IIS000> NNTP-Posting-Host: cse.cygnus.com X-Trace: cronkite.cygnus.com 986582113 25647 205.180.230.236 (6 Apr 2001 18:35:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: postmaster@cygnus.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Apr 2001 18:35:13 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.5 To: cygwin@cygwin.com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup cygnus.gnu-win32 Bernard Dautrevaux writes: > In fact Windows not exactly ignores periods at the end of file names: > writing a filename as "foo." asks windows NOT to search for "foo.exe" or > "foo.bat" IF it needs to execute the file... This is allows to execute "foo" > instead of "foo.exe" if both exist, just to add some more fun :-) That's not windows, that's command.com or cmd.exe. If you put "." at the end, it [wrongly] thinks there's and extension, and only searches for that extension, which in this case is blank. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple