Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20011112163730.02231820@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:38:43 -0500 To: Roland Glenn McIntosh , cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: aux.c special name? In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011112152302.068ffc18@lnxmain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:27 PM 11/12/2001, Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote: >I can't seem to edit any files named "aux.c" . Why is this happening to me? >Steps to reproduce: > >echo "weidness" > aux.c >vi aux.c --> "aux.c is not a file" > >similar results with other editors / operations. >the "file" command reports it as character special device? >This is weird and poses difficulty porting packages that have an aux.c file. The FAQ is your friend! ;-) What about DOS special filenames? http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC58 Check the email archives too if you want to catch all the details of the multiple discussions on this subject. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/