What is aux???!

[Colin JN Breame]

Larry Hall wrote:

>At 10:43 AM 10/29/2004, you 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
>>    
>>
>
>
>Welcome to Windows.  
>
>You should try googling for things like this.  It has come up before not 
>surprisingly:
>
><http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00370.html>
>  
>
Says here <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00373.html> that:

Starting with version 1.5.0, Cygwin provides a special "managed" mount 
mode that encodes, among other things, special names (including "aux") 
so that they can be used in Cygwin.

Is this something I can "activate" ??

-- Colin



--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/