From: peterm AT jna DOT com DOT au (Peter Miller) Subject: Re: phantom file "aux" under bash b19 7 Apr 1998 05:09:23 -0700 Message-ID: <9804070019.AA23814.cygnus.gnu-win32@sol.jna.com.au> References: <6rJJkeBKpfB AT mike DOT franken DOT de> Reply-To: Peter Miller To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Michael Hirmke writes: > There are a few of those special files: con, com, lpt, ... Having these files is *every* directory seems excessive. (I've run into this problem, especially ``aux''.) Surely they could be absolute? /con, /com, /lpt, etc... or even a touch unix-ish /dev/con, /dev/aux, etc... Perhapse the location could be specified using mount? Regards Peter Miller E-Mail: millerp AT canb DOT auug DOT org DOT au /\/\* WWW: http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/ Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are personal and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of my employer or the opinions of my colleagues. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".