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: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:27:40 +0200 Message-Id: <200412291927.iBTJRegp028989@beta.mvs.co.il> From: "Ehud Karni" To: "Mikael Aesberg" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Three questions In-reply-to: <20041229154402.GG21682@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> (message from Christopher Faylor on Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:44:02 -0500) Organization: Mivtach-Simon Insurance agencies Reply-to: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il References: <004801c4edbb$bde6bfe0$0200a8c0@mindcooler> <20041229154402.GG21682@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8-i Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:44:02 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >Third: I tried removing an the .exe-extension from a file by issuing: > >$ mv tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb.exe tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb > > $ mv tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb.exe tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb. Actually, this does not work (cygwin1.dll 1.5.12(0.116/4/2)), with the same error as without the extra dot, but the following does work: $ mv tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb.exe another-name $ mv another-name tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb no extra dot needed. Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D Better Safe Than Sorry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/