For my part, I can confirm that file names aux and aux.c work fine when created by touch or by > from bash ... in cygwin 1.7.0-65 under Windows 7. Best wishes -- EM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple