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RE: AC_CYGWIN?
- From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald at landheer dot com>
- To: Alexander Enchevich <Alexander dot Enchevich at creo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:53:08 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: RE: AC_CYGWIN?
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Alexander Enchevich wrote:
> > Note, though, that there is absolutely no problem with the filename
> > ".mumbleinit" on Cygwin (I just did a `touch .mumbleinit` to make
> > sure)
> On Cygwin there isn't but on "Win" there is - try copying/renaming an
> existing file to something like .filename in Explorer (I tried it on
> Win2K). You will get an err. message informing you that "You must type a
> filename" :)
Yeah, I know. But:
Cygwin != Windows && Windows == lame
from which we can deduce that
Cygwin != lame
;)
Note this, BTW:
> copy hello .world
> dir
12/06/03 12:47 0 .world
so even Windows can handle .names :)
rlc
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