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Re: phantom file "aux" under bash b19
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- Subject: Re: phantom file "aux" under bash b19
- From: Peter Miller <peterm at jna dot com dot au>
- Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 10:19:48 +1000
- Reply-To: Peter Miller <peterm at jna dot com dot au>
Michael Hirmke writes:
> There are a few of those special files: con, com<x>, lpt<x>, ...
Having these files is *every* directory seems excessive.
(I've run into this problem, especially ``aux''.)
Surely they could be absolute?
/con, /com<n>, /lpt<n>, etc...
or even a touch unix-ish
/dev/con, /dev/aux, etc...
Perhapse the location could be specified using mount?
Regards
Peter Miller E-Mail: millerp@canb.auug.org.au
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