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Re: cvs available for test
Charles Wilson wrote:
>
> --Forwarded to the list for Travis Howell <kirben@bigfoot.com>--
>
> Any chance of making cvs avoid/skip directory/file names not allowed
> under
> Windows ? one CVS I know (eggdrop1.5) uses an AUX directory so cvs under
> cygwin fails to work with it.
> Check out http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q216/6/54.ASP
>
Well, that's a filesystem issue and is really beyond the scope of what I
was trying to do. Is it possible that cygwin's file access functions
should transparently munge these troublesome, illegal names -- aux, prn,
etc? Or is that a really really bad idea?
--Chuck
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