On Apr 6 18:12, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: > Hello, > > * On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:00:21PM +0100 Phil Betts wrote: > > Marc Girod wrote: > > > > I try to open a new file named 'Aux.pm' under GNU emacs, and this one > > > hangs. > [...] > > 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. http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
