Re: 1.3.4: Filenames ending with a dot

Re: 1.3.4: Filenames ending with a dot

[Fergus]

It's not a bug, it's a Windows feature. Windows thinks a file named filename
is the same as the file named filename. is the same as the file named
filename.. ... etc.

Even less conveniently, it thinks the file named filename is the same as the
file named Filename is the same as the file named fileName ... etc.
Unfortunately you just have to live with it. (You can all it any one of
these, say fileName, and that's what will come up in response to dir under
Windows or ls under Cywin: so the case combination you choose is
"remembered", but all other combinations spelled the same way are now
unuseable in any distinguishable way.)

Fergus


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Re: 1.3.4: Filenames ending with a dot

[Fergus]

It's not a bug, it's a Windows feature. Windows thinks a file named filename
is the same as the file named filename. is the same as the file named
filename.. ... etc.

Even less conveniently, it thinks the file named filename is the same as the
file named Filename is the same as the file named fileName ... etc.
Unfortunately you just have to live with it. (You can all it any one of
these, say fileName, and that's what will come up in response to dir under
Windows or ls under Cywin: so the case combination you choose is
"remembered", but all other combinations spelled the same way are now
unuseable in any distinguishable way.)

Fergus


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RE: 1.3.4: Filenames ending with a dot

[Tony Arnold]

Kandziora,

> there may be a problem with cygwin's handling of filenames: Files with any
> number of dots at the end are referred to be the same with no dots at the
> end at all. E.g.
>
> echo Hello >a
> echo World >a....

I think its a Windows problem. Try the same thing from a command prompt window
(aka DOS box) and you get the same result!

Regards,
Tony.
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1.3.4: Filenames ending with a dot

[Kandziora Jan]

Hello,

there may be a problem with cygwin's handling of filenames: Files with any
number of dots at the end are referred to be the same with no dots at the
end at all. E.g.

echo Hello >a
echo World >a....

results in a single file a, containing "World". The file can be accessed
with the name "a" and also "a." etc.
Moreover, one can mkdir a directory named "xyz", and use it with any number
of dots at the end.

mkdir xyz
cd xyz.....

pwd gives now "(...) /xyz....."
I wonder if you intended it to work like this or if it's a bug.

	Jan Kandziora


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RE: 1.3.4: Filenames ending with a dot

[Tony Arnold]

Kandziora,

> there may be a problem with cygwin's handling of filenames: Files with any
> number of dots at the end are referred to be the same with no dots at the
> end at all. E.g.
>
> echo Hello >a
> echo World >a....

I think its a Windows problem. Try the same thing from a command prompt window
(aka DOS box) and you get the same result!

Regards,
Tony.
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University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL.
T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039
E-mail: tony.arnold@man.ac.uk, Home: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold


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1.3.4: Filenames ending with a dot

[Kandziora Jan]

Hello,

there may be a problem with cygwin's handling of filenames: Files with any
number of dots at the end are referred to be the same with no dots at the
end at all. E.g.

echo Hello >a
echo World >a....

results in a single file a, containing "World". The file can be accessed
with the name "a" and also "a." etc.
Moreover, one can mkdir a directory named "xyz", and use it with any number
of dots at the end.

mkdir xyz
cd xyz.....

pwd gives now "(...) /xyz....."
I wonder if you intended it to work like this or if it's a bug.

	Jan Kandziora


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