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RE: cannot make a directory called "aux"


Hint,

Did you ever consider reading the FAQs before posting

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owneratcygwin.com On Behalf
> Of Troy Hicks
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 1:09 AM
> To: cygwinatcygwin.com
> Subject: cannot make a directory called "aux"
>
>
> This is a strange problem.
>
> Here are the basics:
> =====================
> in your home directory (or any directory from cygwin) try to
> "mkdir aux".  For
> me this fails with the following complaint:
>
> $ mkdir aux
> mkdir: `aux' exists but is not a directory
>
> Anyone seen/know of a problem like this?  I'm running WinXP with cygwin:
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 gw600 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown
> Cygwin
>
>
> More info
> ===========
> in the same directory in which mkdir aux was attempted ls -al give the
> following (note no aux file, directory or otherwise):
>
> $ ls -al
> total 12
> drwxrwxrwx+   4 Troy A.  None            0 Feb  8 19:04 .
> drwxrwxrwx+   3 Troy A.  None            0 Jan 31 12:29 ..
> -rw-------    1 Troy A.  None         6459 Feb  7 13:19 .bash_history
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 Troy A.  None          533 Jan 31 11:10 .bash_profile
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 Troy A.  None          625 Jan 31 11:10 .bashrc
> -rw-------    1 Troy A.  None          188 Feb  6 12:52 .cvspass
> -rw-------    1 Troy A.  None          286 Feb  7 11:16 .history
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 Troy A.  None          267 Jan 31 11:10 .inputrc
> drwxr-xr-x+   2 Troy A.  None            0 Feb  8 22:02 .ncftp
> drwx------+   2 Troy A.  None            0 Feb  9 00:28 .ssh
>
> I ran into the problem when trying to cvs co a source tree that
> had aux as a
> subdirectory down several levels from the top.
>
>
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