Adding FGL to the hierarchical libraries
Keith Wansbrough
Keith.Wansbrough at cl.cam.ac.uk
Thu Jan 15 09:32:18 EST 2004
> Don't name the intermediate directories (subheirarchies) or modules Aux.
> On Windows platforms (at least 2k, almost certainly earlier ones as well
> though) aux (or aux.* in general) is a special file name.
Certainly since MSDOS 2.0, possibly even 1.0.
IIRC, the reserved names include aux:, con:, prn:, com1:, com2:,
com3:, com4:, lpt1:, lpt2:, lpt3:, and nul:. The syntax with the
trailing colon is official, but not necessary. So don't name anything
with these names :-(
--KW 8-)
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