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RE: broken 'ln' behavior


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mh@mike.franken.de [mailto:mh@mike.franken.de]
>
> >Is there a way to delete a hard link named x. (2 characters)?
> 
> Only way I found was the Posix subsystem. Interix 2.2 in my case - I
> suppose, any Posix subsystem will do the job, though.
> 
> Ran Interix ksh und rm'ed the file "a."!

From another cygwin newsgroup thread, I found that the following works from
bash:
   rm '\\?\d:\dir1\dir2\x.' 

-- John 

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