On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:53:08PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Alexander Enchevich wrote: > Note this, BTW: > > copy hello .world > > dir > 12/06/03 12:47 0 .world > > so even Windows can handle .names :)
It's just a long standing problem in the Windows Explorer which never really got the idea. The underlying OSes, even 95, have no problems with leading dot in filenames. I guess it was the "use a hammer instead of a scalpel" method where looking for the file system on which to create the file would have been sufficient. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
