dos telnet.exe not showing up with cygwin "ls"

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Fri Apr 18 21:02:00 GMT 2014


On 04/18/2014 04:06 PM, Andy wrote:

<snip>

> The real question (I should have emphasized this in my original post) is how
> a file can be invisible to cygwin, but not to Windows explorer or the DOS
> shell.  It's a general question that goes beyond telnet.  The fact that this
> is possible is (I think) something to be aware of because it means that what
> you see using bash could very well be a low fidelity reflection of what's in
> the underlying Windows file system.  I mean low fidelity in a relative sense
> -- it means there's one more way for what's seen via bash to differ from the
> underlying Windows file system.

Can you clarify your question here a bit?  Are you using a 32-bit Cygwin
and confused by the fact that you don't see 64-bit stuff with it?  Forgive
me if I assumed too much about the issue you're seeing.

-- 
Larry

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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