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Re: device names tidbit

To: Geoffrey Noer <noer at cygnus dot com>
Subject: Re: device names tidbit
From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 10:09:16 -0500
Cc: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>, cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <200001072128.QAA00354@envy.delorie.com> <20000107173242.A25742@cygnus.com> <20000107193521.A26032@cygnus.com> <20000107231136.A6387@cygnus.com>

On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:11:36PM -0800, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 07, 2000, Chris Faylor wrote:
>[...]
>> I would be really interested in hearing opinions on this.  Should we
>> open files in such a way that we can create an "aux" or a "com"?
>> Should this be the default?
>
>I tend to think this might be a bad idea.  Plus, I don't recall seeing
>complaints about this for a long time so I'm not convinced the
>potential headache is worth it.

There have been several complaints recently.  One was yesterday, in fact.

cgf

References:
- device names tidbit
  - From: DJ Delorie
- Re: device names tidbit
  - From: Chris Faylor
- Re: device names tidbit
  - From: Chris Faylor
- Re: device names tidbit
  - From: Geoffrey Noer

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