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From:	"Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov>
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Subject:	RE: What is aux???!
Date:	Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:02:12 -0400
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See http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq.html#SEC55 ("What about DOS
special filenames?") and
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN81
5 ("Special filenames/DOS devices")

At Friday, October 29, 2004 10:43 AM, Colin JN Breame wrote:
> Try this:
> 
> $ mkdir aux
> mkdir: `aux' exists but is not a directory
> 
> $ cat aux
> (hangs)
> 
> $ ./aux
> (hangs)
> 
> $ ls aux
> aux
> 
> $ rm aux
> $

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