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Re: cygwin Digest 4 Feb 2000 04:22:05 -0000 Issue 396
- To: cygwin-digest-help at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: cygwin Digest 4 Feb 2000 04:22:05 -0000 Issue 396
- From: Dave Sherohman <dave at bridgecom dot com>
- Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 10:14:28 -0600
- Cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, "Yunki Paik" <paik1 at llnl dot gov>
At 04:22 AM 2/4/2000 -0000, cygwin-digest-help@sourceware.cygnus.com wrote:
>Subject: B20.1 NT long file question
>When I vi a file, it does not recognize the file if the file name is long.
>However, if I use it 8.3 DOS name for it, it finds it.
Many versions of vi allow you to specify multiple files for editing.
Unfortunately, this feature is generally incompatible with filenames that
include spaces; 'vi "My file.txt"' will attempt to open two files, "My" and
"file.txt".
To verify whether this is the problem you're encountering, try a file named
something like
'My-really-long-file-name-which-may-or-may-not-work-with-vi.doc.junk.txt' -
not 8.3-compliant, but without spaces in the name.
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