Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:56:31 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit @ cygwin" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <172876008743.20020618225631@familiehaase.de> To: "John Seeliger" CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Just installed Cygwin In-Reply-To: <01bd01c216fb$abb93800$9865fea9@yourviu5vcdub5> References: <01bd01c216fb$abb93800$9865fea9@yourviu5vcdub5> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hallo John, Am Dienstag, 18. Juni 2002 um 21:09 schriebst du: > I just installed cygwin to be able to use perl, sed, grep and a few Unix > utilities on my Win XP Home Edition computer and I chose Unix file names > during the installation and I now see from > that I shouldn't have done that since > perl looks for aux.sh and Windows will hang up when looking for a filename > with com1, lpt1 or aux as root or extension. And sure enough when I try > perl in the shell, it does hang. So, do I need to delete everything and > reinstall from scratch? Any other tips so I can avoid any other newbie-type > mistakes and wasting even more time. No, there is no problem with perl. What hangs with perl if you try it? BTW: $ touch aux touch: setting times of `aux': Invalid argument $ ls $ touch aux.test touch: setting times of `aux.test': Invalid argument $ ls $ touch test.aux $ ls test.aux -> Extensions are allowed. This section in the FAQ is outdated at least for my NT box perl works fine and extensions with special names are allowed). Gerrit -- $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-4.0 LORELEY 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i686 unknown -- 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/