Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: Chris Faylor Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 10:09:16 -0500 To: Geoffrey Noer Cc: DJ Delorie , cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: device names tidbit Message-ID: <20000108100916.A31987@cygnus.com> Mail-Followup-To: Geoffrey Noer , DJ Delorie , cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com References: <200001072128 DOT QAA00354 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <20000107173242 DOT A25742 AT cygnus DOT com> <20000107193521 DOT A26032 AT cygnus DOT com> <20000107231136 DOT A6387 AT cygnus DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000107231136.A6387@cygnus.com>; from noer@cygnus.com on Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:11:36PM -0800 On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:11:36PM -0800, Geoffrey Noer wrote: >On Fri, Jan 07, 2000, Chris Faylor wrote: >[...] >> I would be really interested in hearing opinions on this. Should we >> open files in such a way that we can create an "aux" or a "com"? >> Should this be the default? > >I tend to think this might be a bad idea. Plus, I don't recall seeing >complaints about this for a long time so I'm not convinced the >potential headache is worth it. There have been several complaints recently. One was yesterday, in fact. cgf