On 11 May 2006 16:11, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> On 11 May 2006 16:00, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 11 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
>>
>>>> Cygwin's file handling relies on the underlying facilities of the
>>>> Windows O/S, for the most part.
>>>
>>> Yes, and that leads to some funny behavior -- see below.
>>
>>> Interestingly enough:
>>>
>>> $ echo "BLAH" > a:b
>>> bash: a:b: No such file or directory
>>
>> Perhaps you forgot to put a floppy in the drive?
>
> Gee, you think so? :-)
Hmmm... let's try....
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /test/ads> echo "blah" > a:b
bash: a:b: No medium found
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /test/ads>
OK, I think I get it now. Let me re-word my observation:
>> Perhaps you forgot to put the floppy drive in?
> The point I was making was that Windows isn't consistent about treating
> filenames as streams vs. disk references, due to the reuse of the ':'
> character. I'm guessing it would be possible to add streams to a file
> called 'a', but not through the interfaces used by Cygwin.
Gee, you think not? :-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /test/ads> echo "blah" > ./a:b
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /test/ads> ls -la a
-rw-r--r-- 1 dk Domain Users 0 May 11 16:16 a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /test/ads>
cheers,
DaveK
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