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Re: cannot make a directory called "aux"
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 05:50:52 -0800
- Subject: Re: cannot make a directory called "aux"
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <loom.20040209T070052-877@post.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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