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Re: aux.* as filename


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: aux.* as filename
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:25:21 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Francky Leyn scripsit:

> Will it also catch the other reserved filenames like
> 
> com1, com2, com3, con, lpt1, lpt2, lpt3, nul, and prn?

Yes, that list (and many more) are already present.  The main issue
is that reserved-name matching is only done against the final
component of the name.

> If the version is ready, could you post it to a cygwin
> mailing list, with the question to include doschk in
> the standard distribution? Now it isn't.

I will.

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