Re: Directory name of aux is invalid

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <address@hidden>, Trevor 
Daniels <address@hidden> writes
> > Aargh.  This commit also implies creation of scripts/aux/.  I don't
> > enjoy so much saying this, but the limitation we hit is worthwhile:
> > Windows sucks, I wish there were only Unix OSes. :-)
>
> I can't really apologise for Windows, and I wasn't aware of this
> limitation until I hit this problem and investigated, but I'm sorry
> this has caused you extra work.

It's a dos limitation that has carried into Windows. And it bites 
professionals. I recently had to teach my fellow (experienced!) 
programmers that certain file names weren't permitted...

(I think a user typed CON into our program as data - only snag is the 
program used that data as a file name and promptly fell over ...)

Cheers,
Wol
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