On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 01:32, Keith Wansbrough wrote:
Don't name the intermediate directories (subheirarchies) or modules Aux. On Windows platforms (at least 2k, almost certainly earlier ones as well though) aux (or aux.* in general) is a special file name.
Certainly since MSDOS 2.0, possibly even 1.0.
IIRC, the reserved names include aux:, con:, prn:, com1:, com2:, com3:, com4:, lpt1:, lpt2:, lpt3:, and nul:. The syntax with the trailing colon is official, but not necessary. So don't name anything with these names :-(
A little testing reveals that (under Windows 2000) the bad list includes at least com1 through com9 and lpt1 through lpt9 (and, as Derek (I think) mentions above, if X is bad, then so is X.*; so Con.lhs is bad). In case people haven't figured it out by the file names, these are the Windows equivalent of Unix character special files. "nul:" is very similar to the Unix "/dev/null"; except that instead of being stuffed away in /dev, Windows pretends there's a copy in every directory (so instead of using "/dev/null", you could use "nul:", or ".\nul", or "..\nul.asdffdsa", or "c:\Nul.hs"; all are equivalent). Carl Witty