Re: What is aux???!

[Colin JN Breame <colin at breame dot com>]

Larry Hall wrote:

> At 10:43 AM 10/29/2004, you wrote:
>  
>
> > Try this:
> >
> > $ mkdir aux
> > mkdir: `aux' exists but is not a directory
> >
> > $ cat aux
> > (hangs)
> >
> > $ ./aux
> > (hangs)
> >
> > $ ls aux
> > aux
> >
> > $ rm aux
> > $
> >
> > Yours bemused,
> >
> > -- Colin
> >    
>
>
> Welcome to Windows.  
>
> You should try googling for things like this.  It has come up before not 
> surprisingly:
>
> <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00370.html>
>  
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" ??

-- Colin



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