From:	ajm AT atml DOT co DOT uk (Andy Moreton)
Subject:	Re: getting Perl5 to compile under gnu-win32
4 Nov 1996 03:42:04 -0800 :
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On Sunday, November 03 Stan Shebs wrote:

>gmarzot AT baynetworks DOT com (Joe Marzot) writes:
>
>> hints/aux.sh
>>=20
>> could not be created. I am guessing this has something to do with NT =
as
>> I could not create a file with this name from the NT command prompt.
>
>Yes, we ran into a similar problem with a GCC source file named aux.h.
>It seems that "aux" is disallowed as a filename.  We ended up renaming
>the file to something else.
>
This is a feature of Windows - the DOS device names (CON, AUX, PRN, LPT, =
COM) are not allowed as part of a filename, whether you use an extension =
or not.=20

The filesystem does not support case-sensitive filenames either. On NT =
the names are stored case-sensitive, but the filesystem APIs are case =
insensitive :-(

HTH

	AndyM
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