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Re: tar, scp hang after upgrades
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: "Dockeen" <dockeen at mchsi dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 19:22:59 -0400
- Subject: Re: tar, scp hang after upgrades
At 06:22 PM 6/9/2002, Dockeen wrote:
>Larry, I had one of those head slapping moments a week and a half
>ago. A piece of scientific code would not untar. I found that
>it was trying to create a directory called aux. Silly me, I did
>a little experiment from windows, in which I tried to create a
>directory names aux, and it would not do it. THEN, I went to the
>windows documentation and saw about the reserved nature of aux.
>
>Bottom line: You can't even name a directory aux!
Yes, Windows is fun! ;-)
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