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Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 12:28:53 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks
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On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 9 11:39, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > > On Jul 9 07:30, Eric Blake wrote:
> > > > Hmm, while I'm at it, "dirname //" should return //, not /.
> > >
> > > No. // is a perfectly valid root dir in a system which differs between
> > > / and //. Let dirname(1) just use what it gets from dirname(3).
> >
> > Looks to me like you're in violent agreement here...
>
> Hmmmm... time to clean the display again? Sigh, every five years the
> same fuss...
Yep. Use <http://www.gadgeteer.net/junk/screenclean.swf>. Regularly. :-)
Igor
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