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 Message-ID: <000701c16b7d$a48be480$6fc82486@medschool.dundee.ac.uk> Reply-To: "Fergus" From: "Fergus" To: Cc: "Fergus on Linux" Subject: Re: 1.3.4: Filenames ending with a dot Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:26:31 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 It's not a bug, it's a Windows feature. Windows thinks a file named filename is the same as the file named filename. is the same as the file named filename.. ... etc. Even less conveniently, it thinks the file named filename is the same as the file named Filename is the same as the file named fileName ... etc. Unfortunately you just have to live with it. (You can all it any one of these, say fileName, and that's what will come up in response to dir under Windows or ls under Cywin: so the case combination you choose is "remembered", but all other combinations spelled the same way are now unuseable in any distinguishable way.) Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/