[Haskell-cafe] Uploading to hackage fails: bad file names in tarball

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Mon Jun 16 11:08:26 UTC 2014


On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:45:05AM +0200, Niklas Larsson wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> For extremely ancient and cludgy reasons AUX isn't a valid filename
> on windows, it's a DOS device. The other similarly reserved name are
> CON, PRN and NUL.

Shouldn't COMn be added to that list too? :)

/M

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