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 -- Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards Hack Kampbj�rn -- 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/
