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Re: What is aux???!
At 11:54 AM 10/29/2004, you wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 04:41:58PM +0100, Colin JN Breame wrote:
>>Says here <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00373.html> that:
>>
>>Starting with version 1.5.0, Cygwin provides a special "managed" mount
>>mode that encodes, among other things, special names (including "aux")
>>so that they can be used in Cygwin.
>>
>>Is this something I can "activate" ??
>
>Nah, we only mention stuff like this to basically confound users to get
>them to send more email to the cygwin mailing list without actually
>clicking on the referenced links or doing any basic research on the
>topic.
That means you should at least try simple things like 'man mount' to find
more information. Be aware that this only works for files that Cygwin sees
and only in a new directory. You cannot make an existing directory managed.
Names are "garbled" to Windows programs.
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