/ Jonathon Merz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |[...] | I agree with that, having seen this before, but I am curious... It | seems that such functionality did not get there by accident (I cannot | think of a way to ignore characters in a filename without some _extra_ | coding), so it must have been done for some purpose. Yet I cannot for | the life of me imagine what benefit this produces, or what fault it | would circumvent. Anyone have ideas as to this? Uh.. say something 'rational' microsoft has done?? :-) Isn't windows 9x one of the great accidents of today?? ;-) /Andy -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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