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Hey, it's Windows. What did you expect?
I was able to name a folder com16 or some such, btw...
Apparently Windows only blocks the names for ports which actually exist. Makes sense, but what happens when I put my "com16" folder on a disk and stick it into a Windows box with 16 or more serial ports?
Actually, I'm going to try making a "com1" folder on a CD (from my Mac) and inserting that into a Windows box. Hmm...
Well, Windows 2000 sees this as not a problem. You can look inside the empty folder and everything. Same with XP home.
Note: In XP home, creating the empty folder on the desktop and naming it "com1" results in Windows quietly switching the name back to "New Folder" with no error or anything. W2K at least complained that the file already existed.
Strange inconsistency.
On Feb 9, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
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
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$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
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