I can not save to a nonexistant file name under Cygwin, but I can under Windows.
When I type: cat "hello" > foo.txt under Cygwin I get this error message: bash: foo.txt: No such file or directory (unless foo.txt already exists in the current directory). This only happens with network filesystems. I know I have write permission because I can create the file with "touch foo.txt", and I can create the files with Windows Wordpad. Other programs under Cygwin also cannot create files, such as vim, and co (from the rcs package). Things work fine for all programs on the local C: drive. Why does this problem occur under Cygwin? Is there maybe a workaround? I have not seen anything about this in the Cygwin FAQ or in two mailing list archive searches. If there is already documentation about this, please point me to it. I am using Windows XP professional 5.1.2600 SP 1.0, and Cygwin DLL version 1.5.10-3 (setup program version 2.427). Thank you for your consideration, Christian Schreiner caschreirc (at) yahoo (dot) com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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/
