Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4027903C.306D9BDA@dessent.net> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 05:50:52 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cannot make a directory called "aux" References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Troy Hicks wrote: > This is a strange problem. 'aux' is a reserved word, along with 'com', 'lpt', 'con', etc. which dates back to the days of DOS when you'd "copy filename.txt lpt1:" to print something. So, you can't use it as a filename. This is also in the FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC59 Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/