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Re: Three questions
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:27:40PM +0200, Ehud Karni wrote:
>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.
Hmm. Apparently this has been fixed in the latest snapshot. Hopefully
it isn't just a lurking bug but is an actual fix.
cgf
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