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Date:	Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:04:00 +0200
From:	Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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To:	Colin JN Breame <colin AT breame DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: What is aux???!
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Colin JN Breame schrieb:
> Try this:
> 
> $ mkdir aux
> mkdir: `aux' exists but is not a directory
> 
> $ cat aux
> (hangs)
> 
> $ ./aux
> (hangs)
> 
> $ ls aux
> aux
> 
> $ rm aux
> $

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html

Using (esp. unlinking) "NUL" and other special filenames is problematic. 
Use windows-special "\\.\" and "\??\" path-prefixes on Windows.

DEL \\.\c:\somedir\aux
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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