From: ajm@atml.co.uk (Andy Moreton) Subject: Re: getting Perl5 to compile under gnu-win32 4 Nov 1996 03:42:04 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BBCA39.FF790B10.cygnus.gnu-win32@MOLE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Original-To: "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Sunday, November 03 Stan Shebs wrote: >gmarzot@baynetworks.com (Joe Marzot) writes: > >> hints/aux.sh >>=20 >> could not be created. I am guessing this has something to do with NT = as >> I could not create a file with this name from the NT command prompt. > >Yes, we ran into a similar problem with a GCC source file named aux.h. >It seems that "aux" is disallowed as a filename. We ended up renaming >the file to something else. > This is a feature of Windows - the DOS device names (CON, AUX, PRN, LPT, = COM) are not allowed as part of a filename, whether you use an extension = or not.=20 The filesystem does not support case-sensitive filenames either. On NT = the names are stored case-sensitive, but the filesystem APIs are case = insensitive :-( HTH AndyM --- Andy Moreton Advanced Telecommunications Modules ajm@atml.co.uk UK http://www.atml.co.uk/ Tel +44 1223 566919 USA http://www.atminc.com/ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".