<div dir="ltr">Out of curiosity I tried creating a file named "..." under Windows. It didn't give me an error, but the file didn't seem to exist, except that I couldn't create a directory with the same name ("file or directory exists.")<div><br></div><div>I was able to create one under cygwin, but the Windows command prompt again didn't show it and gave "access denied" when I tried to look at it.</div><div><br></div><div>It's a valid filename in Linux, but clearly there's something weird about how Windows handles it.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Stephan Oepen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oe@ifi.uio.no" target="_blank">oe@ifi.uio.no</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">hi emily and laurie,<br>
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> There seems to be an empty file called '...' in the LOGON svn,<br>
> which is leading to problems (see below). Can this be removed?<br>
<br>
i just removed that file; it was residual from the times when the<br>
LOGON tree was versioned in CVS, to include the otherwise empty<br>
directory in the repository.<br>
<br>
out of curiosity, however, does removing this file really resolve your<br>
problems? the file name ‘...’ seems perfectly legitimate (if somewhat<br>
creative) to me, and those periods all are plain ASCII, i.e. i wonder<br>
how your SVN client would consider them ‘invalid characters’? also,<br>
this file has been around for decades and not caused problems in the<br>
past (for all i know). so, please keep me posted in case your problem<br>
persists ...<br>
<br>
best, oe<br>
<br>
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