C Schreiner, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I can not save to a nonexistant file name under
> Cygwin, but I can under Windows.
>
> When I type:
>
> cat "hello" > foo.txt
I suppose you MEANT "echo" here... otherwise:
$ cat "hello" >foo.txt
cat: hello: No such file or directory
$ echo "hello" >foo.txt
$ cat foo.txt
hello
> 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.
<SNIP>
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems --72-->
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