AUX File Writing Error

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Feb 15 08:27:51 EST 2007


Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> En Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:34:59 -0300, John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net>  
> escribió:
> 
>> On Feb 15, 4:03 pm, thewritersc... at gmail.com wrote:
>>> Is there any way I can create an "AUX.csv" file without the error?
>> Probably not. AUX, CON, NUL, PRN, LPT, COM1, COM2 etc (with or without
>> an extension) are reserved in Windows for specific devices for
>> compatibility with MS-DOS 1.00 programs, which did that for
>> compatibility with CP/M.
> 
> (This is OT now) Do you know why "AUX.csv" is invalid too? I can accept  
> that AUX (without extension) is an invalid filename, but it is quite  
> different from "AUX.csv"
> 
Because Windows is brain-dead? There really is no sense in looking for 
rationality where none exists. This is the way it is, and there's 
nothing you can do about it.

regards
  Steve
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