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Re: device names tidbit
- To: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker at butlermfg dot org>
- Subject: Re: device names tidbit
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 19:06:58 -0500
- Cc: "'cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <200001102315.PAA12812@cygnus.com>
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 05:14:54PM -0600, Parker, Ron wrote:
>Just curious what MS tools you are referring to. The command line tools
>handle it just fine using the prefix. This includes attrib, del, file
>redirection and others. It is only the shell, Explorer, that I recall
>choking when you try to delete these files. I have seen a number of
>applications create filenames that Explorer could not delete.
The issue is not that tools would be able to take the the syntax. I
don't want to be in a position of explaining hundreds of times that the
"aux" file has to be accessed in a special way.
And, as a few people have wailed about on the cygwin mailing list,
Explorer doesn't operate on the files very well.
cgf