Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20041029115428.04091108@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:58:34 -0400 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: What is aux???! In-Reply-To: <20041029155446.GJ29869@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> References: <418256F7.2090007@breame.com> <6.1.0.6.0.20041029104928.040946d8@pop.prospeed.net> <418264C6.20608@breame.com> <20041029155446.GJ29869@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:54 AM 10/29/2004, you wrote: >On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 04:41:58PM +0100, Colin JN Breame wrote: >>Says here that: >> >>Starting with version 1.5.0, Cygwin provides a special "managed" mount >>mode that encodes, among other things, special names (including "aux") >>so that they can be used in Cygwin. >> >>Is this something I can "activate" ?? > >Nah, we only mention stuff like this to basically confound users to get >them to send more email to the cygwin mailing list without actually >clicking on the referenced links or doing any basic research on the >topic. That means you should at least try simple things like 'man mount' to find more information. Be aware that this only works for files that Cygwin sees and only in a new directory. You cannot make an existing directory managed. Names are "garbled" to Windows programs. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/