Leonardo wrote:
> Hi
>
> I´m scared!
> Why my WinXP don´t let me create files with names aux.h and aux.c??
> It simply doesn't accept that I rename files with these names. I
> thought it could be names of programs in some directory stored in
> "Path" environment variable but I couldn´t find anything.
> Plus, if I go Start/Run and type one of these names it will open the
> Notepad with a blank screen and a message pop-up "Access denied". Very
> bizarre!!
>
> Could someone point me out what is going on here?
> Thank you very much,

Names like "Com" and such do that too -- it's legacy behavior from the
days of yore and MS-DOS. :P

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"Twisted One" wrote in message
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> Leonardo wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I´m scared! Why my WinXP don´t let me create files with names aux.h and
>> aux.c??
>> It simply doesn't accept that I rename files with these names. I
>> thought it could be names of programs in some directory stored in
>> "Path" environment variable but I couldn´t find anything.
>> Plus, if I go Start/Run and type one of these names it will open the
>> Notepad with a blank screen and a message pop-up "Access denied". Very
>> bizarre!!
>>
>> Could someone point me out what is going on here?
>> Thank you very much,
>
> Names like "Com" and such do that too -- it's legacy behavior from the
> days of yore and MS-DOS. :P


hehe, theres a whole bunch of them, some more bizzare than others ;-)

Chris




>
> --
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
> Palladium? Trusted Computing? DRM? Microsoft? Sauron.
> "One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them
> One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them."
>