Just installed Cygwin
Gerrit P. Haase
gp@familiehaase.de
Tue Jun 18 21:56:00 GMT 2002
Hallo John,
Am Dienstag, 18. Juni 2002 um 21:09 schriebst du:
> I just installed cygwin to be able to use perl, sed, grep and a few Unix
> utilities on my Win XP Home Edition computer and I chose Unix file names
> during the installation and I now see from
> <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC59> that I shouldn't have done that since
> perl looks for aux.sh and Windows will hang up when looking for a filename
> with com1, lpt1 or aux as root or extension. And sure enough when I try
> perl in the shell, it does hang. So, do I need to delete everything and
> reinstall from scratch? Any other tips so I can avoid any other newbie-type
> mistakes and wasting even more time.
No, there is no problem with perl.
What hangs with perl if you try it?
BTW:
$ touch aux
touch: setting times of `aux': Invalid argument
$ ls
$ touch aux.test
touch: setting times of `aux.test': Invalid argument
$ ls
$ touch test.aux
$ ls
test.aux
-> Extensions are allowed.
This section in the FAQ is outdated at least for my NT box perl
works fine and extensions with special names are allowed).
Gerrit
--
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-4.0 LORELEY 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i686 unknown
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