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Re: Bug: '%' in filenames with B20.1


It's a known problem in B20.1, fixed in later snapshots.

cgf

On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:23:23PM +0100, Edward Avis wrote:
>Giving a filename ending in '%' (eg '%' or 'a%') to 'touch' crashes B20.1.
>Eg 'touch "%"' from the NT cmd.exe .
>
>Running the command from bash - or from cmd.exe where the filename begins
>with '%' but doesn't end in it - gives an error such as 'touch: %: No such
>file or directory' - even if a file '%' already exists.
>
>I have not experimented further, other than finding a similar problem with
>'cat'.  I am not on this list, but I thought you might like the bug report.
>
>My CYGWIN=tty,binmode .
>

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