Subject: Re: cannot make a directory called "aux"
From: Brian Dessent <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 05:50:52 -0800

Troy Hicks wrote:

> This is a strange problem.

'aux' is a reserved word, along with 'com', 'lpt', 'con', etc. which
dates back to the days of DOS when you'd "copy filename.txt lpt1:" to
print something.  So, you can't use it as a filename. 

This is also in the FAQ:  http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC59

Brian

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