Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

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Sat Feb 15 11:32:00 GMT 2003


On 15 Feb 2003, "Elfyn McBratney"
<elfyn-cygwin@exposure.org.uk> wrote: 

>> Actually, just creating a file named 'con' would probably
>> be easier. 
>
> Isn't 'con' a reserved name in windows?

Yes, it is. You can't even create a file called con.html (or any 
other extension). Same goes for aux and maybe some others too.

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