On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Thomas Berger wrote:
>
> Calin Florescu wrote:
> >
> > Apparently it's impossible to create on Windows a file or a folder having
> > the name starting with "com" followed by a digit (0-9) and dot "."
> > ("com4.com.br", "com1.ro" or "com9."). Probably because is similar with
> > serial ports notation.
>
>
> It *is* DOS device notation: Those special files do
> exist everywhere, therefore you don't have to redirect
> to /dev/something but can use something whereever you
> are.
"com1" "prn" "lpt" "nul"
might be fine, even if I prefer the /dev/com1 notation that enables myself
to have a "com1" file name in another directory.
"com1[.*]"
is definitely *not* OK to be treated as special file.
- Davide
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