This is a strange problem. Here are the basics: ===================== in your home directory (or any directory from cygwin) try to "mkdir aux". For me this fails with the following complaint:
$ mkdir aux mkdir: `aux' exists but is not a directory Anyone seen/know of a problem like this? I'm running WinXP with cygwin: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 gw600 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin More info =========== in the same directory in which mkdir aux was attempted ls -al give the following (note no aux file, directory or otherwise): $ ls -al total 12 drwxrwxrwx+ 4 Troy A. None 0 Feb 8 19:04 . drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Troy A. None 0 Jan 31 12:29 .. -rw------- 1 Troy A. None 6459 Feb 7 13:19 .bash_history -rwxr-xr-x 1 Troy A. None 533 Jan 31 11:10 .bash_profile -rwxr-xr-x 1 Troy A. None 625 Jan 31 11:10 .bashrc -rw------- 1 Troy A. None 188 Feb 6 12:52 .cvspass -rw------- 1 Troy A. None 286 Feb 7 11:16 .history -rwxr-xr-x 1 Troy A. None 267 Jan 31 11:10 .inputrc drwxr-xr-x+ 2 Troy A. None 0 Feb 8 22:02 .ncftp drwx------+ 2 Troy A. None 0 Feb 9 00:28 .ssh I ran into the problem when trying to cvs co a source tree that had aux as a subdirectory down several levels from the top. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
