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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:06:08 -0400
From: Jim Drash <jim DOT drash AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: What is aux???!
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It is a standard Windows pipe (like stdin, stdout) and is a hold over
form DOS.  It is the serial port just like lpt1 is the attached
printer


On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:43:03 +0100, Colin JN Breame <colin AT breame DOT com> wrote:
> Try this:
> 
> $ mkdir aux
> mkdir: `aux' exists but is not a directory
> 
> $ cat aux
> (hangs)
> 
> $ ./aux
> (hangs)
> 
> $ ls aux
> aux
> 
> $ rm aux
> $
> 
> Yours bemused,
> 
> -- Colin
> 
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