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Re: device names tidbit


On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 05:32:42PM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:28:59PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>>
>>I just ran across this in MSDN.  I wonder if we should use this trick
>>to be able to create/delete otherwise "reserved" names?
>
>Yeah, I knew about this.  I am leery of introducing something into the
>filesystem which can't be manipulated by normal Microsoft tools.
>
>Maybe it's a configuration option candidate?

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?

Should we ask the general list?

cgf

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