Re: File names start with aux

["Avraham H. Fraenkel" <avraham dot fraenkel at comMATCH dot com>]

It seems that the problem is only with aux or aux.XXX, if you
will use auxXXX ther is no problem .

Hope it can help you.


     Avraham

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Avraham H. Fraenkel 
www.comMATCH.com
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On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Noel L Yap wrote:

> Yup, I just checked this on NT under a DOS shell using "dir prn.c" and "dir
> aux.c" -- another assinine behaviour of Windoze.
> 
> Noel
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> cgf@cygnus.com on 2000.10.04 17:31:05
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> Please respond to cygwin@sources.redhat.com
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> To:   cygwin@sources.redhat.com
> cc:   (bcc: Noel L Yap)
> Subject:  Re: File names start with aux
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> On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:27:14PM -0400, Noel L Yap wrote:
> >I'm not sure if this turbulence should apply to filenames such as "aux.c".
> 
> I think you inadvertently sent this to the wrong mailing list.
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> You probably meant to send this to the "billgates@microsoft.com" mailing
> list.
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> cgf
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> >cgf@cygnus.com on 2000.10.04 17:14:57
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> >Please respond to cygwin@sources.redhat.com
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> >To:   cygwin@sources.redhat.com
> >cc:   (bcc: Noel L Yap)
> >Subject:  Re: File names start with aux
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> >On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 03:10:27PM -0600, urs muff wrote:
> >>I try to create a file called aux.c or aux.h and the latest version of
> >>cygwin does not allow that.  If I make a 'ls' on aux, aux.c, aux.h, aux.* I
> >>will always get 'crw-r--r--   0 everyone Everyone   0,   0 Dec 31  1969
> >>aux.c'.  Is this a known issue?  Is there a workaround?  All commands trying
> >>to read from files like that are just stalling.  (Probably trying to read
> >>from the COM port).
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance,
> >
> >Welcome to Windows.  Hope you enjoy the ride.
> >
> >You may notice slight turbulence when attempting to use such filenames
> >as "com1", "aux", "lpt1", "prn", and others.  Please keep your hands and
> >feet on your keyboard during this time.
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