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Re: aux.c special name?
- To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: aux.c special name?
- From: Jeff Mincy <jeff at delphioutpost dot com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 21:26:56 -0500
- References: <20011112223849.T2618@cygbert.vinschen.de>
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:38:49 +0100
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:27:22PM -0500, Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote:
> 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!
I store stock quotes in files - ie IBM quotes go into IBM. Works
great until you get to PRN and RCS. RCS broke because I already had a
RCS source control directory. I never understood why PRN failed...
thanks. -jeff
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