Re: Cyg-gnu-win fun

[Robert]

Ahhhh....yes, that seems to be what happened. It never occured to me
to do ls -a looking for a "winemacs.exe"...or in this case, looking for
"..swarm"   ***rolling eyes***

Thanks Glen...

reb

glen e. p. ropella wrote:

> 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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