The very latest cygwin, "all" updated yesterday - and Win98SE. For a particular reason I wanted to clear my D: drive.
Knowing all the peculiarities involved in such an operation from MESSYDOS i thought that I'll try cygwin's mv... Hannu@p450 /cygdrive/e/TEMP $ mv /cygdrive/d/* . mv: `/cygdrive/d/_CD_IMAGES_/TKCD2001.cdi.exe' and `./_CD_IMAGES_/TKCD2001.cdi' are the same file mv: `/cygdrive/d/_CD_IMAGES_/ELFA2000.cdi.exe' and `./_CD_IMAGES_/ELFA2000.cdi' are the same file In other words: there seems to be some peculiarities here too. 1) No *.exe's in that directory, mv has obviously appended '.exe'. 2) Note that "." is /cygdrive/e/ -> the paths point to DIFFERENT drives 3) The entire contents of _CD_IMAGES_/ was left on D: The cause to all this was clear when I attempted to copy the files with Explorer: a dialog saying "...sharing violation..." appeared. I had not succeded in closing down the CD-ROM emulator fully. After doing so, all went smoothly. May I suggest that the BOFH-message above gets revised, it isn't confusing enough! ;-> /Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden -- 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/
