Re: Directory name of aux is invalid

2009-01-25 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Paul Scott wrote: > dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009, Trevor Daniels said: > > > > > 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). > > > > please not

Re: Directory name of aux is invalid

2009-01-24 Thread Paul Scott
dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009, Trevor Daniels said: 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). please note, in DOS (and many of its contemporary file systems), what users

Re: Directory name of aux is invalid

2009-01-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/1/6 Trevor Daniels : >> 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 recently had to run Windows Vista (for the only good reason one can think

Re: Directory name of aux is invalid

2009-01-06 Thread demery
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009, Trevor Daniels said: > 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). please note, in DOS (and many of its contemporary file systems), what users think of as the filename is not actua

Re: Directory name of aux is invalid

2009-01-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
Anthony W. Youngman wrote Tuesday, January 06, 2009 7:09 PM In message , Trevor Daniels 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

Re: Directory name of aux is invalid

2009-01-06 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , Trevor Daniels 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 limit

Re: Directory name of aux is invalid

2009-01-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
John Mandereau Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:06 AM Le lundi 05 janvier 2009 à 15:32 +, Trevor Daniels a écrit : I have a git problem with your recent commit c553fc2251b508befebd1dc297c4baa898463f34 to clean up the build scripts. The reason is that aux is a reserved word in Windows, alon

Re: Directory name of aux is invalid

2009-01-05 Thread John Mandereau
Le lundi 05 janvier 2009 à 15:32 +, Trevor Daniels a écrit : > I have a git problem with your recent commit > c553fc2251b508befebd1dc297c4baa898463f34 to clean up the build scripts. > The reason is that aux is a reserved word in Windows, along with a few > others like com, lpt1, nul, prn, Lp

Directory name of aux is invalid

2009-01-05 Thread Trevor Daniels
John I have a git problem with your recent commit c553fc2251b508befebd1dc297c4baa898463f34 to clean up the build scripts. The commit tries to create a directory python/aux and fails. The reason is that aux is a reserved word in Windows, along with a few others like com, lpt1, nul, prn, Lpt4,