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Re: Cyg-gnu-win fun
From: |
glen e. p. ropella |
Subject: |
Re: Cyg-gnu-win fun |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Mar 1998 07:33:08 -0700 |
Hmmm. Mine doesn't actually dissappear. A
mv booga ..\ooga
basically renames the file from "booga" to "..ooga". This
is actually proper behavior because the "\" should be read
as an escape character.... and I believe "\o" == "o" [grin]
glen
Robert wrote:
>
> Perhaps I missed something in the beta version warnings, but in the
> win-bash shell if one uses a backslash instead of a forwardslash in
> cp or mv then your new file (or moved file) disappears without a
> trace...no warning either.
>
> mv winemacs.exe ../swarm ----> all is happy
> mv winemacs.exe ..\swarm ----> winemacs.exe is sent into the
> ether....imagine
> the surprised
> look after
> patiently waiting
> 2 hrs for that
> download...argh.
>
> Anyway, thought those that just grabbed the files and started
> hacking away with getting swarm up on NT might want a heads
> up.
>
> Since there seems to be some significant differences between
> installing on 95 and on NT, does this little phenomenon happen on
> 95, too?
>
> Robert
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- Cyg-gnu-win fun, Robert, 1998/03/30
- Re: Cyg-gnu-win fun,
glen e. p. ropella <=