From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5707 invoked by alias); 18 Jun 2002 20:56:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 5684 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2002 20:56:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp-send.myrealbox.com) (192.108.102.143) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Jun 2002 20:56:13 -0000 Received: from p3EE02A95.dip.t-dialin.net timtowtdi@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [62.224.42.149] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with NetMail SMTP Agent $Revision: 3.9 $ on Novell NetWare; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:56:05 -0600 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 21:56:00 -0000 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit @ cygwin" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <172876008743.20020618225631@familiehaase.de> To: "John Seeliger" CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Just installed Cygwin In-Reply-To: <01bd01c216fb$abb93800$9865fea9@yourviu5vcdub5> References: <01bd01c216fb$abb93800$9865fea9@yourviu5vcdub5> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-06/txt/msg00942.txt.bz2 Hallo John, Am Dienstag, 18. Juni 2002 um 21:09 schriebst du: > I just installed cygwin to be able to use perl, sed, grep and a few Unix > utilities on my Win XP Home Edition computer and I chose Unix file names > during the installation and I now see from > that I shouldn't have done that since > perl looks for aux.sh and Windows will hang up when looking for a filename > with com1, lpt1 or aux as root or extension. And sure enough when I try > perl in the shell, it does hang. So, do I need to delete everything and > reinstall from scratch? Any other tips so I can avoid any other newbie-type > mistakes and wasting even more time. No, there is no problem with perl. What hangs with perl if you try it? BTW: $ touch aux touch: setting times of `aux': Invalid argument $ ls $ touch aux.test touch: setting times of `aux.test': Invalid argument $ ls $ touch test.aux $ ls test.aux -> Extensions are allowed. This section in the FAQ is outdated at least for my NT box perl works fine and extensions with special names are allowed). Gerrit -- $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-4.0 LORELEY 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i686 unknown -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/