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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:46:32 +0100
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To: Roland Glenn McIntosh <roland AT steeltorch DOT com>
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Subject: Re: aux.c special name?
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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"

And it's not it's a device !

Yet Another of those wonderful Windows features 8-)

On windows, you cannot name a file <dosdevice>.extension. AUX is STDERR,
a console DOS device name.

Others are CON, COM1, COM2, COM3, PRN, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, ...

> 
> 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.
> 
> -Roland
> 
> ----------------------
>    Cygwin DLL version info:
>        dll major: 1003
>        dll minor: 3
>        dll epoch: 19
>        dll bad signal mask: 19005
>        dll old termios: 5
>        dll malloc env: 28
>        api major: 0
>        api minor: 46
>        shared data: 3
>        dll identifier: cygwin1
>        mount registry: 2
>        cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
>        cygwin registry name: Cygwin
>        program options name: Program Options
>        cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
>        cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
>        cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
>        cygdrive default prefix:
>        build date: Wed Sep 12 23:54:31 EDT 2001
>        shared id: cygwin1S3


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Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards

Hack Kampbjørn

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