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dingleberry

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Has anyone out there ever run linux applications with windows? It's bass ackwards I know but I'm running cygwin, and apache web server on my w2k box. I've always been perplexed on how to name a file starting with a "." for instance in apache, it uses an .htaccess for control characteristics. But you can't name a file starting with a ".". Computer always warns to type a filename. Same thing applies with cygwin. need a file for xwindows (lol) but can't name file .xinitrc

Any ideas?
dan
 
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You must be using Explorer. Try from a DOS prompt, you should have no problems:

c:\>rename thisfile.tmp .xinitrc

 
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