A package does not install in Windows, but it should

[Miles Gould]

On 04/07/13 11:27, Daniel Díaz Casanueva wrote:
> OK, thank you for your respense, Gregory. That was the whole problem and
> now it is fixed.
> Just for the sake of curiosity, why is that name (with any extension)
> not allowed in Windows?

It was used to refer to serial ports under DOS, and Microsoft have a 
particularly paranoid approach to preserving backwards compatibility:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUX:#Reserved_device_names

Miles
[who is now trying to remember when he last owned a computer with a 
serial port!]