Why Can't I Name a Folder aux in Windows 2003?

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Can't name a folder "aux"

I have windows 2003 server and whenever i attempt to name a folder "aux" it just switches back to the previous name not allowing me to have a folder named "aux". "aux2" is allowed. I thought this was curious.

 

[dduardo]

It must be some type of reserved word. Why the restriction? I have no idea, but it seems like Microsoft has hacked up their filesystem to be backwards compatibilty or something.

You also can't use: CON, COM1, NUL, PRN

In *nix all these devices would be under /dev so you don't have the filename restriction. You just can't create two files with the same in in the same folder.

I found the info here:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...2003+aux+folder&rnum=2&hl=en#2e73b889b5232b37