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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: 2004年2月09日 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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