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Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:45:44 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: FW: pubdestroyer2001.exe via anonymous FTP?
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On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 02:48:33PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>This suggests to me that (as a faaaaar off when-time-happens) we might
>be able to handle some of the tricky things like source dirs called
>"aux" by redirecting the posix name aux to \\.\.....\aux.
>
>Anyway, not planning to do this now, or expecting anyone else to, just
>mailing so the concept is in the archives.

Yeah, it's been mentioned before.  I don't believe that syntax works on
Windows 9x, though, does it?

cgf

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