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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:38:49 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: aux.c special name?
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In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011112152302.068ffc18@lnxmain>; from roland@steeltorch.com on Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:27:22PM -0500

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:27:22PM -0500, Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote:
> I can't seem to edit any files named "aux.c" .  Why is this happening to me?
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> echo "weidness" > aux.c
> vi aux.c   --> "aux.c is not a file"
> 
> similar results with other editors / operations.
> the "file" command reports it as character special device?
> This is weird and poses difficulty porting packages that have an aux.c file.

Windows "feature".  Same for other DOS special device names as
e.g. "com" or "prn".  Once I asked the maintainers of a package
to rename the aux.c file to something which doesn't clash with
Windows weirdness and they actually did it.  Thanks to the OpenSSH
maintainers!

Corinna

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