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Re: Cygwin mistakes directories for character devices
- From: James Vega <jamessan at coe dot neu dot edu>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 02:08:25 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Cygwin mistakes directories for character devices
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Robert Collins wrote:
> Under win9x, such filenames are invalid - they are DOS devices, and
> cygwin maintains win9x compatability. If you want correct behaviour
> under NT, perhaps you could submit a patch.
I'm not sure about filenames, but I know that you can make directories
named as such because I had 3 directories following that naming scheme.
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