Won't let me raname

[Travis King]

I had a bitmap that I wanted to name "aux" (short for auxilary), but it
wouldn't let me... Is there a glitch with this "aux"? I can rename it
whatever I want except aux. Now isn't aux a file type also? Is that why it
won't let me call it aux because there is a file type called aux? Does that
mean there's a glitch in Windows that won't let you name a file something
that an extension exists? But then again, I tried testing this theory and
typed bmp (BMP, bmp, and Bmp to see if it was case sensitive) and it let me
rename the file to that... There was some other file extension name that I
typed in that wouldn't let me change it either... By the way, I'm not
putting a "." before the name! Is this a known problem.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Travis,

The following reserved words cannot be used as the name of a file:
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4,
COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4,
LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.

 

[Travis King]

OK Thanks... So some kind of a port for the most part...

Hi Travis,

The following reserved words cannot be used as the name of a file:
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4,
COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4,
LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

I had a bitmap that I wanted to name "aux" (short for auxilary), but it
wouldn't let me... Is there a glitch with this "aux"? I can rename it
whatever I want except aux. Now isn't aux a file type also? Is that why
it won't let me call it aux because there is a file type called aux? Does
that mean there's a glitch in Windows that won't let you name a file
something that an extension exists? But then again, I tried testing this
theory and typed bmp (BMP, bmp, and Bmp to see if it was case sensitive)
and it let me rename the file to that... There was some other file
extension name that I typed in that wouldn't let me change it either...
By the way, I'm not putting a "." before the name! Is this a known
problem.

 

[Travis King]

OK Thanks... So some kind of a port for the most part...

Hi Travis,

The following reserved words cannot be used as the name of a file:
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4,
COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4,
LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

I had a bitmap that I wanted to name "aux" (short for auxilary), but it
wouldn't let me... Is there a glitch with this "aux"? I can rename it
whatever I want except aux. Now isn't aux a file type also? Is that why
it won't let me call it aux because there is a file type called aux? Does
that mean there's a glitch in Windows that won't let you name a file
something that an extension exists? But then again, I tried testing this
theory and typed bmp (BMP, bmp, and Bmp to see if it was case sensitive)
and it let me rename the file to that... There was some other file
extension name that I typed in that wouldn't let me change it either...
By the way, I'm not putting a "." before the name! Is this a known
problem.

 

[Bert Kinney]

And hardware devices.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

OK Thanks... So some kind of a port for the most part...

Hi Travis,

The following reserved words cannot be used as the name of a file:
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4,
COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4,
LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

I had a bitmap that I wanted to name "aux" (short for auxilary), but it
wouldn't let me... Is there a glitch with this "aux"? I can rename it
whatever I want except aux. Now isn't aux a file type also? Is that why
it won't let me call it aux because there is a file type called aux?
Does that mean there's a glitch in Windows that won't let you name a file
something that an extension exists? But then again, I tried testing this
theory and typed bmp (BMP, bmp, and Bmp to see if it was case sensitive)
and it let me rename the file to that... There was some other file
extension name that I typed in that wouldn't let me change it either...
By the way, I'm not putting a "." before the name! Is this a known
problem.

 

[Travis King]

I don't know why that one reply to the post occured twice.. It told me
there was an error with sending the post the first time, so I tried it
again, and both of them sent anyway...

OK Thanks... So some kind of a port for the most part...

Hi Travis,

The following reserved words cannot be used as the name of a file:
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4,
COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4,
LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

I had a bitmap that I wanted to name "aux" (short for auxilary), but it
wouldn't let me... Is there a glitch with this "aux"? I can rename it
whatever I want except aux. Now isn't aux a file type also? Is that why
it won't let me call it aux because there is a file type called aux?
Does that mean there's a glitch in Windows that won't let you name a file
something that an extension exists? But then again, I tried testing this
theory and typed bmp (BMP, bmp, and Bmp to see if it was case sensitive)
and it let me rename the file to that... There was some other file
extension name that I typed in that wouldn't let me change it either...
By the way, I'm not putting a "." before the name! Is this a known
problem.

 

[David Candy]

Because your first post was sent but the connection was dropped before the server said ok I got it.

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I don't know why that one reply to the post occured twice.. It told me
there was an error with sending the post the first time, so I tried it
again, and both of them sent anyway...

OK Thanks... So some kind of a port for the most part...

Hi Travis,

The following reserved words cannot be used as the name of a file:
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4,
COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4,
LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

I had a bitmap that I wanted to name "aux" (short for auxilary), but it
wouldn't let me... Is there a glitch with this "aux"? I can rename it
whatever I want except aux. Now isn't aux a file type also? Is that why
it won't let me call it aux because there is a file type called aux?
Does that mean there's a glitch in Windows that won't let you name a file
something that an extension exists? But then again, I tried testing this
theory and typed bmp (BMP, bmp, and Bmp to see if it was case sensitive)
and it let me rename the file to that... There was some other file
extension name that I typed in that wouldn't let me change it either...
By the way, I'm not putting a "." before the name! Is this a known
problem.