> -----Original Message----- > From: Aurangzeb M. Agha
> Dave -- > > That worked! Thank goodness, I thought I'd have to live with > an unwanted folder forever. Hooray! > I'm curious--was what you suggested possible just because I was lucky? > What if the names of the files had been even longer; would > your suggestion not have worked?! > > Thanks so much. > > Sincerely, > > Zeb Yep, it could have been the case. It's a known class of bugs in software: when special characters need to be escaped, the effect of doing so is to lengthen any string, such as a filename, that contains them, thereby sometimes making them longer than some presupposed limit somewhere in the software or operating system. (It's also a known cause of network security holes through buffer overflows in server software.) If there had been a whole load more at and ampersand signs in that filename, you might have had to get *real* tricky with it :) Fortunately, reducing the left-hand part of the path did the job. Glad to help! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/