ott-lang/ott

Possible issues on Windows due to 'aux' directory

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Hello,

I just tried removing a Coq Windows-based installation on a test machine, and I had some weird errors related to the fact that, on Windows, names such as aux, con, etc, are handled in a special way due to old DOS-related reasons.

The cause was the aux folder present in ott, which was installed along with Coq.

Now, while Cygwin, Bash shell, and other programs can handle it, my Windows Explorer failed to, and Command Prompt required using special syntax (rd \\.\C:\...\ott.0.32\aux).

Now that I know about it, it's not an issue to me, but in case others might have this issue in the future, I'd just like to let you know about it. If you decide one day to do some refactoring, you might want to include renaming the directory by then.