Re: Three questions

["Ehud Karni" <ehud at unix dot mvs dot co dot il>]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:44:02 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> >Third: I tried removing an the .exe-extension from a file by issuing:
> >$ mv tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb.exe tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb
>
> $ mv tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb.exe tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb.

Actually, this does not work (cygwin1.dll 1.5.12(0.116/4/2)), with
the same error as without the extra dot, but the following does work:
$ mv tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb.exe another-name
$ mv another-name tiny_mdi_example_without_ggdb
no extra dot needed.

Ehud.


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