Re: Cyg-gnu-win fun

[glen e. p. ropella]

Hmmm.  Mine doesn't actually dissappear.  A 

mv booga ..\ooga

basically renames the file from "booga" to "..ooga".  This 
is actually proper behavior because the "\" should be read
as an escape character.... and I believe "\o" == "o" [grin]

glen

Robert wrote:
> 
> Perhaps I missed something in the beta version warnings, but in the
> win-bash shell if one uses a backslash instead of a forwardslash in
> cp or mv then your new file (or moved file) disappears without a
> trace...no warning either.
> 
> mv winemacs.exe ../swarm    ----> all is happy
> mv winemacs.exe ..\swarm    ----> winemacs.exe is sent into the
>                                                       ether....imagine
> the surprised
>                                                       look after
> patiently waiting
>                                                       2 hrs for that
> download...argh.
> 
> Anyway, thought those that just grabbed the files and started
> hacking away with getting swarm up on NT might want a heads
> up.
> 
> Since there seems to be some significant differences between
> installing on 95 and on NT, does this little phenomenon happen on
> 95, too?
> 
> Robert
> address@hidden
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