From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: phantom file 10 Apr 1998 15:57:59 -0700 Message-ID: <19980407124931.24691.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: peterm AT jna DOT com DOT au Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Subject: Re: phantom file "aux" under bash b19 >Reply-To: Peter Miller >Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 10:19:48 +1000 >From: Peter Miller > > >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''.) These "files" don't exist as files. These are devices that are reported on by ls as devices. They do not reside on the disk drive. > >Surely they could be absolute? > /con, /com, /lpt, etc... > >or even a touch unix-ish > /dev/con, /dev/aux, etc... > It is possible that an occasional file of such name does get created on the disk, especially from a tarball. If this ever happens, to remove the file you must FULLY specify the path. EG: rm //c/disk/path/to/aux >Perhapse the location could be specified using mount? They are emulated via the cygwinb19.dll. > > >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. >- - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) http://rcw.home.ml.org/ (Rob Warner - software ports) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/ (more - software portals) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/rpm (Redhat Package Manager) http://www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp/index_text.html (Andy Piper - ports) http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf (Christopher Faylor - package ports) ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/ (German mirror) SEARCH ENGINES WITH gnu-win32 mail archive RELATED INDICIES: http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=gnu-win32&r=1&w=2#gnu-win32 http://www.findmail.com http://www.search.com add gnu-win32 or gnuwin32 to the search criteria. Help for Win32 Beginners: http://www.relisoft.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - 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".