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On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:05:48 +0200, Leszek W³odarski <leszekwlodarski at poczta.onet.pl> wrote: >Hello everybody, > >I got some problems with using CVS together with files ending with '.'. I got CVSNT server and some unix client (1.11.5). At the UNIX side everything works fine, I mean, I suppose it does. It looks like windows server ommits single '.' character at the end of filename, at it looks for NAME file in the repository. >The message is: >(cvs server: nothing known about 'NAME' - ! not 'NAME.' > >Can you tell me if there's any workaround, >what is interesting, update command works fine. > '.' is special to Windows. You can't store a filename ending in one on the filesystem (try renaming a file on the desktop to have a dot on the end... it'll silently remove it). Tony