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 <peterm AT jna DOT com DOT au>
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com


Michael Hirmke writes:
> There are a few of those special files: con, com<x>, lpt<x>, ...

Having these files is *every* directory seems excessive.
(I've run into this problem, especially ``aux''.)

Surely they could be absolute?
	/con, /com<n>, /lpt<n>, etc...

or even a touch unix-ish
	/dev/con, /dev/aux, etc...

Perhapse the location could be specified using mount?


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