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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Weirdness with 9660srv and file names (extensions)?
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:40:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C515248.2B234C76@strakt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C50B69F.C31D5AF2@invalid.address.com>

bs wrote:
>
> I have seen this happen on a lot Unix systems too when I read
> a CD burned by Adaptec CD burner s/w on a Windows system and the
> file does not have an extension.

Happened to me the other night.  It decided that there was a file
called .DOT and it really didn't like that.  I think it had got
confused over /usr/boyd/. or something, so I just renamed it to
be x.DOT.

Much as dd's syntax is gross, it does not ask you stupid questions.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-25 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-24  3:22 Dan Cross
2002-01-24 15:59 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-25 10:00 ` bs
2002-01-25 12:40   ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2002-01-24  7:36 Russ Cox
2002-01-24 21:53 ` Dan Cross
2002-01-24 16:13 Russ Cox
2002-01-24 16:22 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-25  8:45 forsyth
2002-01-25 22:24 ` Dan Cross
2002-01-27 19:29 Russ Cox
2002-01-27 19:37 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-28 18:11   ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-28 23:23 ` Dan Cross
2002-01-28 23:30   ` William S.
2002-01-27 19:55 Russ Cox

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