unable to edit/less dotted files, etc.

[Julian Opificius <julianop at barnlea dot com>]

Hi folks,

I'm running v1.3 of Cygwin on Win2k on a laptop. My machine dual-boots 
Win98 and Win2k, and my Win2k drive is G. Cygwin installed smoothly 
under Win2k.

My problem is that dotted files like .bashrc have become inaccessible 
with programs like vi and less. I didn't have a problem immediately 
after the initial install, only later. I can list them with ls -al, but 
"vi .bashrc" opens up a new file, and less returns "No such file or 
directory". The files are accessible under Win2k, and do not appear 
corrupted.

A complete uninstall and reinstall fixed it for a while, but now the 
problem is back.

Also, I now notice that other files - filenames that don't conform to 
DOS 8.3 format - also are listable but not editable. I have a source 
file "main.cas", which I can edit. I cp'd it to "main_inst.cas", which 
is listable with ls. But when I try to vi it, I get a new file. mv'ing 
it to maininst.cas renders it editable.

Cheers,

julian.

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