Hello, * On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 06:20:26PM +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 6 18:12, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: > > * On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:00:21PM +0100 Phil Betts wrote: > > > Marc Girod wrote: [...] > > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.dos-filenames
> > Is this still true for Cygwin 1.7? I mean, Win 9x support has been > > dropped, there is no reason not to use the \\.\... path specifiers, > > which would make this problem vanish. > > Apart from the fact that you should use slashes instead of backslashes, > there isn't any need to use //./ in Cygwin 1.7. Just open Aux.pm. I was asking if 1.7 supports the access to such files. As I was assuming that you would use the Win32 API, I asked why *Cygwin* does not use the \\.\... paths. > http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html Ok, so this is not an issue for 1.7 anymore. Good to know. Best regards, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://opencbm.sf.net/ http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ -- 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/