[Freeciv] Re: How to load a saved game & set home directory?

["Andreas D. Landmark" <andreas.landmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06.08.2001 16:35, Jack Lloyd wrote:
> > Where do you take that from?  My windows book (german translation of
> > Jeffrey Richter, Advanced Windows, 3rd ed.) doesn't say that a filename
> > must not start with a fullstop. On Windows 95 civclient creates such a
> > file. Should we change the name from .civclientrc to _civclientrc on
> > windows?
>
> I have had problems (on Windows 2000) with filenames beginning with a "."
> (namely .bash_history, .bashrc, etc for cygwin). I was able to create the
> files, but... it didn't seem too happy with letting me do it. And it takes
> some real convincing it you want to rename the file or something (because it
> decides the whole file name is an "extension", and thus that the file doesn't
> actually have a name as far as it can tell). In fact IIRC I had to drop into
> the cygwin shell and rename the file from there.
>
> Jack
No problem with Win2000 and .filenames...

M:\text>echo test > .test

M:\text>dir .test
 Volume in drive M is 290399ntfs
 Volume Serial Number is 886E-60C2

 Directory of M:\text

06.08.2001  17:47                    7 .test
               1 File(s)              7 bytes
               0 Dir(s)   1 137 127 424 bytes free

M:\text>

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