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Re: [x86_64 on W7] Cannot remove cygwin root directory
- From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:49:16 -0400
- Subject: Re: [x86_64 on W7] Cannot remove cygwin root directory
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On 10/16/2013 5:37 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote:
I want to reinstall cygwin but I cannot remove the root directory
because of this file:
C:\cygwin64\usr\share\texmf-dist\doc\latex\hausarbeit-jura\README.
It has very strange properties: when I right click on it
Properties/Security, this is what I get: “The requested security
information is either unavailable or can't be displayed”
There is an upstream packaging bug that caused two copies of the README
file to be installed, one of which is called "README." (including the
dot). I guess Windows is confused by whatever Cygwin does to allow file
names to include a dot. But you can delete the file from a Cygwin bash
shell.
Ken
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