From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: phantom file "aux" under bash b19
6 Apr 1998 05:59:45 -0700
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To: Daniel Karipides <karipid AT mae DOT cornell DOT edu>
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On 03-Apr-1998, Daniel Karipides <karipid AT mae DOT cornell DOT edu> wrote:
> 
> Under bash, b19, there is a phantom file "aux" that does not exist,
> but affects things such as "ls" and "tar".

The same is true under command.com.  It's a device file.
This particular piece of brain damage is for backwards compatibility
with DOS.

> I couldn't find any reference to this in the FAQ:

I'm pretty sure it's there -- it mentions problems compiling
perl, due to an `aux.sh' file.

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