unable to edit/less dotted files, etc.

[Julian Opificius]

Thanks for the reply, Dave,

Turns out 1.3 is just the version of the doc file, I'm up to date. Sorry
to give bum info. c:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll is dated 9/4/2004.

I've just run a default install again, just in case.

I haven't done anything with perms. I installed cygwin as administrator,
not "just for me".

The behavior is the same, whether I log in using the Win2k admin account
or as my regular user account.

I've just repeated the process: I can't edit a dotted file, even though
I can "ls" it, and I can't edit files that don't conform to 8.3. If I
rename files to 8.3, I can edit them. SO I don't think it has anything
to do with permissions.

Thanks for your continued help.

julian.
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Dave Korn wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Julian Opificius
>>Sent: 19 October 2004 17:49
> 
> 
>>I'm running v1.3 of Cygwin on Win2k on a laptop. 
> 
> 
>   That is _years_ out of date.
> 
> 
>>after the initial install, only later. I can list them with 
>>ls -al, but 
>>"vi .bashrc" opens up a new file, and less returns "No such file or 
>>directory". The files are accessible under Win2k, and do not appear 
>>corrupted.
> 
> 
>   You've probably done something bad with the perms.  Or you installed
> cygwin "Just for me", and now you've logged on as a different user.......?
> The "file not found" error message can often be a result of an application
> not realising that the file is there but the user doesn't have access
> rights.
> 
> 
>>Also, I now notice that other files - filenames that don't conform to 
>>DOS 8.3 format - also are listable but not editable. I have a source 
>>file "main.cas", which I can edit. I cp'd it to 
>>"main_inst.cas", which 
>>is listable with ls. But when I try to vi it, I get a new 
>>file. mv'ing 
>>it to maininst.cas renders it editable.
> 
> 
>   Strange.  Still, there's not a lot of point reporting bugs in such an old
> version of cygwin.  I can't reproduce anything like that with the current
> version.
> 
>     cheers, 
>       DaveK



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