Linux to Windows

[John Jablonski]

Hmmm.

Oddly (?) enough, you can make a ".FILE" using a dos prompt (cmd), but 
not using the win GUI. RMB->Create new->Text file on your desktop (or 
anywhere using windows explorer) and try and create a file named 
".dotfile". You can't do it (in XP-pro anyways).

-john

Tim Conway wrote:

>
> In case cygwin was doing some filename mapping, I tried it in cmd:
>
> C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\t>edit .dotfile
>
> C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\t>del .dotfile
>
> C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\t>echo dot >.dotfile
>
>
> 08/24/2005  08:55 AM    <DIR>          .
> 08/24/2005  08:55 AM    <DIR>          ..
> 08/24/2005  08:55 AM                 6 .dotfile