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Re: AC_CYGWIN?


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

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