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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
