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RE: Data streams being treated as files in Cygwin
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 16:07:12 +0100
- Subject: RE: Data streams being treated as files in Cygwin
On 11 May 2006 16:00, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
>> Cygwin's file handling relies on the underlying facilities of the
>> Windows O/S, for the most part.
>
> Yes, and that leads to some funny behavior -- see below.
> Interestingly enough:
>
> $ echo "BLAH" > a:b
> bash: a:b: No such file or directory
Perhaps you forgot to put a floppy in the drive?
:-D
cheers,
DaveK
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