I have set up a Cygwin install on a Windows 2000 Workstation machine, and got bash and sshd to run perfectly. I can create all regular files, including important ones like ".bashrc" in my HOME folder. Following the same set up, I attempted to set up the same deal on a Windows XP Pro machine, and although everything -else- works, creating a filename in with a period (such as .bashrc) is nearly impossible.
So far, the only way I have found to circumvent it is that "mv" will allow me to rename a file and add a period to the front, but this is not good enough, as vim complains about the swap/recovery file every time I edit one of these files. Is there a setting in Windows XP that I am not aware of, or is this a limitation with NTFS? My W2K machine runs W2K's FAT32, and my XP Pro machine runs XP's NTFS (no encryption). I "STFW" all day, and R'd all of TFMs that I know of, and am at a loss. Help? Thank you for reading this, and thanks in advance for any replies, Joe Drago -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
