>Thomas- > >Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 6:26:55 AM, you wrote: > >TMI> I believe com1 - com23 are the reserved com port names. I just read >TMI> that somewhere? > >There are other reserved words as well: LPT, PRN, NUL, I'm sure there >are others that I can't think of off the top of my head. It's a >holdover from DOS commandlines where you don't need the trailing colon >in order to reference a logical device: > >COPY FILE.TXT COM1 >
Thanks for explaining that, yes of course, MSDOS, I thought they finally dumped that ? But really, a multi-user, multi-tasking, allegedly "modern" operating system that can't tell a reference to a file on disk from a reference to a serial port? I think I'm actually shocked. Martin Baxter _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
