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Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:15:54 -0400
From: "Lee D.Rothstein" <lee AT veritech DOT com>
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Subject: Re: edit Aux.pm under GNU emacs hangs
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  6 15:14, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
>   
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>     
>>> Apart from the fact that you should use slashes instead of backslashes,
>>> there isn't any need to use //./ in Cygwin 1.7.  Just open Aux.pm.
>>>
>>> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html
>>>   
>>>       
>> Can't have any files named [aA][uU][xX] dot *anything* in Windows, or  
>> anything dot [aA][uU][xX].
>>     
>
> Incorrect.  This is a restriction in the Win32 API, it's not a
> restriction of the filesystem or the native NT API which Cygwin 1.7 uses
> for file access (almost) exclusively.
>   

The specific problem symptoms that the original poster mentioned, I was 
able to
replicate WITH a windows app, which seems to me indicates that he was 
using a win32 app, i.e.,
GNU emacs for Win32?

I apologize for my oversight and I certainly wasn't criticizing you, in 
any way!


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