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-Original Message-
From: cygwin-owneratcygwin.com On Behalf
Of Troy Hicks
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 1:09 AM
To: cygwinatcygwin.com
Subject: cannot make a directory called aux
This is a strange problem.
Here are
Troy Hicks wrote:
This is a strange problem.
'aux' is a reserved word, along with 'com', 'lpt', 'con', etc. which
dates back to the days of DOS when you'd copy filename.txt lpt1: to
print something. So, you can't use it as a filename.
This is also in the FAQ:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Brian Dessent wrote:
Troy Hicks wrote:
This is a strange problem.
'aux' is a reserved word, along with 'com', 'lpt', 'con', etc. which
dates back to the days of DOS when you'd copy filename.txt lpt1: to
print something. So, you can't use it as a filename.
This is
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