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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Sat, 8 Jan 2000 10:09:16 -0500
To:	Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	Re: device names tidbit
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In-Reply-To:	<20000107231136.A6387@cygnus.com>; from noer@cygnus.com on Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:11:36PM -0800

On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:11:36PM -0800, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 07, 2000, Chris Faylor wrote:
>[...]
>> I would be really interested in hearing opinions on this.  Should we
>> open files in such a way that we can create an "aux" or a "com"?
>> Should this be the default?
>
>I tend to think this might be a bad idea.  Plus, I don't recall seeing
>complaints about this for a long time so I'm not convinced the
>potential headache is worth it.

There have been several complaints recently.  One was yesterday, in fact.

cgf

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