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Re: Buglist
- To: dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de
- Subject: Re: Buglist
- From: Jim Balter <jqb at netcom dot com>
- Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 19:10:29 -0800
- CC: iverson at cisco dot com, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: JQB Enterprises
- References: <009B24E0.05B6EC20.13406@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de>
dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
>
> Hi Tim, you wrote:
>
> : . Bash doesn't understand drive letters, multi-dot relative paths
> : (eg. "cd ..."), or UNC pathnames (eg. //host/resource).
>
> What is a multi-dot path, please? I never saw ... only know . and ..
> Under Unix ... has no reserved meaning, and AFAIK neither under NT.
Under win32, paths consisting of only dots, with the exception of .
and .., are illegal. This is along with a number of other
illegal characters and combinations, including such winners as
mkdir -p "abcde/xyz/con/ffo/bar" hanging as it tries to do I/O to the
"con" device; lots of fun when you untar a 500Meg tar tape from
some other system that was designed on less ad hoc principles.
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