AC_CYGWIN?
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Jun 12 11:23:00 GMT 2003
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:53:08PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Alexander Enchevich wrote:
> Note this, BTW:
> > copy hello .world
> > dir
> 12/06/03 12:47 0 .world
>
> so even Windows can handle .names :)
It's just a long standing problem in the Windows Explorer which never
really got the idea. The underlying OSes, even 95, have no problems
with leading dot in filenames. I guess it was the "use a hammer instead
of a scalpel" method where looking for the file system on which to create
the file would have been sufficient.
Corinna
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