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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  6 18:12, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> * On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:00:21PM +0100 Phil Betts wrote:
>>     
>>> Marc Girod wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I try to open a new file named 'Aux.pm' under GNU emacs, and this one
>>>> hangs.
>>>>         
>> [...]
>>     
>>> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.dos-filenames
>>>       
>> Is this still true for Cygwin 1.7? I mean, Win 9x support has been
>> dropped, there is no reason not to use the \\.\... path specifiers,
>> which would make this problem vanish.
>>     
> Apart from the fact that you should use slashes instead of backslashes,
> there isn't any need to use //./ in Cygwin 1.7.  Just open Aux.pm.
>
> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html
>
> Corinna
>   
Can't have any files named [aA][uU][xX] dot *anything* in Windows, or 
anything dot [aA][uU][xX].

On so-called 16-bit windows systems this could cause a system crash. I 
learned this the hard way.

On Windows Vista 64b with 'aux.pm' to a current directory, it tries to 
write a file to \\.\aux\.
I didn't have the "heart" to let it try.

Corinna's reference points this out, but her comments seem to ignore this.


Marc Girod did not make clear (to me) whether the Emacs was a Win or 
Cygwin version.

It does not matter, the strange results are the same (except for \\... 
vs //...)
.

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