cannot make a directory called "aux"
Brian Dessent
brian@dessent.net
Mon Feb 9 13:50:00 GMT 2004
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: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC59
Brian
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