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RE: What is aux???!
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:02:12 -0400
- Subject: RE: What is aux???!
See http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq.html#SEC55 ("What about DOS
special filenames?") and
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN81
5 ("Special filenames/DOS devices")
At Friday, October 29, 2004 10:43 AM, Colin JN Breame wrote:
> Try this:
>
> $ mkdir aux
> mkdir: `aux' exists but is not a directory
>
> $ cat aux
> (hangs)
>
> $ ./aux
> (hangs)
>
> $ ls aux
> aux
>
> $ rm aux
> $
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