Dennis Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>He will access the device. This is documented in the book "Undocumented Dos"
>(author, editor, press I don't remember).
My copies claims to be by Schumann et al, published by Addison-Wesley.
>In the early days of DOS, there was a reason why this was done. But I don't
>remember that either.
Speaking of the early days of DOS, this bug has been around for a long, long
time. I remember being able to crash BBS's 10 years ago [0] by uploading zip
files containing reserved names which would bring down the system when the BBS
software scanned the file. I think later versions of Pkzip would try and check
for reserved names to try and prevent this.
Peter.
[0] With the permission of the sysop, done as a demonstration.
