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Re: aux.c special name?
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:27:22PM -0500, 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"
>
> 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.
Windows "feature". Same for other DOS special device names as
e.g. "com" or "prn". Once I asked the maintainers of a package
to rename the aux.c file to something which doesn't clash with
Windows weirdness and they actually did it. Thanks to the OpenSSH
maintainers!
Corinna
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