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.
AUX is a reserved word under DOS based systems (oddly enough including NT). So is PRN and LPT1. You cannot have any file with that name (try it in a DOS box). Stupid, isn't it. There is no way to get around it. John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 -- 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/
