Re: Directory name of aux is invalid

[Trevor Daniels]

Anthony W. Youngman wrote Tuesday, January 06, 2009 7:09 PM
> 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...

For future reference, the complete list is:

CLOCK$, AUX, CON, NUL, PRN, COM1, COM2, COM3, 
COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, 
LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9 

These are all device names in all Windows OSes.

The names are case-insensitive, and they cannot be
used as directory names or the first part of a 
filename (the bit before the dot).

Trevor