Re: cvs and NTFS streams do not play well together...

2004-01-10 Thread Brian Dessent
linda w wrote: > > It seems that the standard stream notation is "::". programs like > Notepad can > read and write to NTFS streams using the :: (double colon notation). That > would seem to indicate thay are valid pathnames that describe a "file" > of data. > I.e. -- ":" is valid in a pathname

Re: cvs and NTFS streams do not play well together...

2004-01-10 Thread linda w
It seems that the standard stream notation is "::". programs like Notepad can read and write to NTFS streams using the :: (double colon notation). That would seem to indicate thay are valid pathnames that describe a "file" of data. I.e. -- ":" is valid in a pathname on an NTFS file system to in

Re: cvs and NTFS streams do not play well together...

2004-01-09 Thread Brian Dessent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I am using Cygwin 1.5.5 and cvs 1.11.6 on top of Windows NT 5.1.2600 > SP1. When I try to "cvs co" a file with a colon in its name, cvs gets > horribly confused by NTFS streams and commits suicide. The exact error > message is as follows: (note: I was checking ou

cvs and NTFS streams do not play well together...

2004-01-09 Thread aspiesrule
Hi, I am using Cygwin 1.5.5 and cvs 1.11.6 on top of Windows NT 5.1.2600 SP1. When I try to "cvs co" a file with a colon in its name, cvs gets horribly confused by NTFS streams and commits suicide. The exact error message is as follows: (note: I was checking out the "src" module on the "HE