oops. that went off too fast. ignore previous email. sorry
Hi Andrew
> Why would you think that you can cp t as just "t" but you'd
> have to touch "t.exe"?
> The real name of the file is t.exe, for touch, cp, rm, etc. The
> only time that just "t" suffices is for exec.
>
Because it used to w
> Why would you think that you can cp t as just "t" but you'd have to touch
"t.exe"?
> The real name of the file is t.exe, for touch, cp, rm, etc. The only time
that just
> "t" suffices is for exec.
Because it used to work on older cygwin. I suspect exactly to get Makefile
and other automated pro
Kris Thielemans wrote:
Hi
Since upgrading cygwin a few days ago, I can no longer cp .exe files if I don't use the .exe suffix. I can reproduce this as follows:
$ mkdir a
$ touch t.exe
$ cp t a
cp: `t' and `a/t' are the same file
$ cp t somenonexistingfilename
cp: 't' and 'somenonexistingfilename
Hi
Since upgrading cygwin a few days ago, I can no longer cp .exe files if
I don't use the .exe suffix. I can reproduce this as follows:
$ mkdir a
$ touch t.exe
$ cp t a
cp: `t' and `a/t' are the same file
$ cp t somenonexistingfilename
cp: 't' and 'somenonexistingfilename' are the same file
I a
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