On 10/10/07, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE - redirected to the list > > According to Francky Leyn on 10/7/2007 1:44 PM: > > Dear Eric, > > > > I want to copy > > D:\ef2EF\.emacs.d > > to > > C:\Documents and Settings\Francky Leyn\My Document\accounts\ef2EF > > When I do this with the Windows explorer file manager this works. > > > > When I mannually try to create a .dot file as > > C:\Documents and Settings\Francky Leyn\My Documents\.foo > > with the Windows explorer file manager this doesn't work. > > Explorere says: "You must type a file name". > > > > What is wrong here? Must I rename the .dot files/dirs, so that they > > have a basename? > > Obviously, Windows Explorer is stupid, and has a mundane limitation. The > workaround is to use cygwin to create . files. >
there is another option, use another file manager such as totalCommander or the like. NULL characters also work :D > - -- > Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! > > Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) > Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHDMXn84KuGfSFAYARArOcAKDOc7qu3XML+b4CJQcn68E3rDbU+QCgtLV0 > 7XUttpsHurWNA4gRVM2yJJA= > =IgMl > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > 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/ > > -- Morgan gangwere Please Excuse TOFU. Gmail/Mobile has no Power. "Space does not reflect society, it expresses it." -- Castells, M., Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age, in The Cybercities Reader, S. Graham, Editor. 2004, Routledge: London. p. 82-93. -- 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/
