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Re: Cygwin mistakes directories for character devices
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "James Vega" <jamessan at coe dot neu dot edu>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:26:00 +1100
- Subject: Re: Cygwin mistakes directories for character devices
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0201270202500.23010-100000@Seconds.coe.neu.edu>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "James Vega" <jamessan@coe.neu.edu>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: Cygwin mistakes directories for character devices
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > Under win9x, such filenames are invalid - they are DOS devices, and
> > cygwin maintains win9x compatability. If you want correct behaviour
> > under NT, perhaps you could submit a patch.
>
> I'm not sure about filenames, but I know that you can make directories
> named as such because I had 3 directories following that naming
scheme.
Under win9x?
Rob
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