Troy Hicks wrote: > This is a strange problem.
'aux' is a reserved word, along with 'com', 'lpt', 'con', etc. which dates back to the days of DOS when you'd "copy filename.txt lpt1:" to print something. So, you can't use it as a filename. This is also in the FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC59 Brian -- 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/