Re: directory-files function - strange bug

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 10:37:05 -0800 (PST)
> From: Deric Bytes <dericbytes@gmail.com>
> 
> When I viewed the file in cygwin the – was shown as –??.

Cygwin uses Unicode (a.k.a. "wide") APIs to communicate file names to
the system, so it can support file names outside of the current
codepage.  So will Emacs in the next version.

> What is strange is that it worked on my c: drive and not my f: drive.

I suspect they have different filesystems, like NTFS vs FAT32.