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Re: What is aux???!
- From: Jim Drash <jim dot drash at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:06:08 -0400
- Subject: Re: What is aux???!
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- Reply-to: Jim Drash <jim dot drash at gmail dot com>
It is a standard Windows pipe (like stdin, stdout) and is a hold over
form DOS. It is the serial port just like lpt1 is the attached
printer
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:43:03 +0100, Colin JN Breame <colin@breame.com> wrote:
> Try this:
>
> $ mkdir aux
> mkdir: `aux' exists but is not a directory
>
> $ cat aux
> (hangs)
>
> $ ./aux
> (hangs)
>
> $ ls aux
> aux
>
> $ rm aux
> $
>
> Yours bemused,
>
> -- Colin
>
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