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According to Francky Leyn on 10/7/2007 1:44 PM: > Dear Eric, > > I want to copy > D:\ef2EF\.emacs.d > to > C:\Documents and Settings\Francky Leyn\My Document\accounts\ef2EF > When I do this with the Windows explorer file manager this works. > > When I mannually try to create a .dot file as > C:\Documents and Settings\Francky Leyn\My Documents\.foo > with the Windows explorer file manager this doesn't work. > Explorere says: "You must type a file name". > > What is wrong here? Must I rename the .dot files/dirs, so that they > have a basename? Obviously, Windows Explorer is stupid, and has a mundane limitation. The workaround is to use cygwin to create . files. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHDMXn84KuGfSFAYARArOcAKDOc7qu3XML+b4CJQcn68E3rDbU+QCgtLV0 7XUttpsHurWNA4gRVM2yJJA= =IgMl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
