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Re: dot files
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: Francky at Leyn dot eu, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:30:31 -0600
- Subject: Re: dot files
- References: <4709370E.9000902@Leyn.eu>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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