It is a standard Windows pipe (like stdin, stdout) and is a hold over form DOS. It is the serial port just like lpt1 is the attached printer
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:43:03 +0100, Colin JN Breame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try this: > > $ mkdir aux > mkdir: `aux' exists but is not a directory > > $ cat aux > (hangs) > > $ ./aux > (hangs) > > $ ls aux > aux > > $ rm aux > $ > > Yours bemused, > > -- Colin > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/
