From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20377 invoked by alias); 24 May 2006 12:28:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 20312 invoked by uid 22791); 24 May 2006 12:28:32 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.artimi.com (HELO mail.artimi.com) (217.40.213.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 24 May 2006 12:28:30 +0000 Received: from mail.artimi.com ([192.168.1.3]) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 24 May 2006 13:25:02 +0100 Received: from rainbow ([192.168.1.165]) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 24 May 2006 13:25:01 +0100 From: "Dave Korn" To: "'discontinuity in the space-time continuum'" Subject: RE: Handling special characters (\/:*?"<>|) gracefully Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12:28:00 -0000 Message-ID: <04d401c67f2d$145ec990$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <44743956.AE8719CA@dessent.net> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00309.txt.bz2 On 24 May 2006 11:46, Brian Dessent wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > >> Well, the /real/ problem about those files (which matched DOS special >> device names) was that you couldn't remove them from cygwin either; not >> being able to delete them from the very same command shell where you >> created them is far worse than having to use the same tool to delete >> something that you used to create it. > > You can create and delete them fine from Cygwin using the native path > (touch '//?/c:/nul') but that wasn't very intuitive. > > Brian IIRC, it wasn't just that, but that you could create them by doing "touch nul" but couldn't then remove them with "rm nul", albeit that the long syntax still worked. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....