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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Cygwin's rename is much more than just a simple wrapper around MoveFile
> or MoveFileEx.  It tries hard to guarantee POSIX semantics within the
> strictures imposed by Windows.

Certainly, but presumably different versions of Win32 have different 
limitations, no?

	-hpa