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Re: Cygwin 1.5.19-4 XEmacs 21.4.19 hangs using pcl-cvs with filename COM1
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:44:54 -0500
- Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.5.19-4 XEmacs 21.4.19 hangs using pcl-cvs with filename COM1
- References: <20060223191454.D37FAA713D@grove.softwarerevolution.com>
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:14:54AM -0800, Mark Purtill wrote:
>================================================================
>We have a CVS repository I'm trying to access on a Windows XP Home box
>running cygwin 1.5.19-4. The CVS environment variables are:
>
>CVSROOT=:ext:<user>@<host>:/work/cvsroot CVS_RSH=/bin/ssh
>
>where <user> and <host> are replaced by the real values. (The
>repository is behind our firewall and not publicly accessible.)
>
>One of the files is called COM1.
"COM1" is a Windows reserved file name, like NUL or LPT1. You can't
use it as a normal file name.
cgf
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