On Apr 6 20:15, Lee D.Rothstein wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Apr 6 15:14, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: >>> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html >>>> >>> Can't have any files named [aA][uU][xX] dot *anything* in Windows, or >>> anything dot [aA][uU][xX]. >> >> Incorrect. This is a restriction in the Win32 API, it's not a >> restriction of the filesystem or the native NT API which Cygwin 1.7 uses >> for file access (almost) exclusively. > > The specific problem symptoms that the original poster mentioned, I was > able to > replicate WITH a windows app, which seems to me indicates that he was > using a win32 app, i.e., > GNU emacs for Win32? > > I apologize for my oversight and I certainly wasn't criticizing you, in > any way!
No worries. I didn't feel criticized. Maybe we were just talking of two different things. My point is that this isn't a generic problem on Windows, just a DOS backward compatibility weirdness on the Win32 level. That's why Cygwin 1.7 applications won't have that problem. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
