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Blake Coverett8-Oct-03 21:33
Blake Coverett8-Oct-03 21:33 
A quibble, not just DOS based systems. The NT kernel family kept this convention despite having no DOS lineage.

For bonus points, there are other reserved device names that most people have forgotten:

AUX - The auxilary device, usually mapped to com1, kernel debugging goes here.
PRN - The default printer, usually mapped to lpt1.
NUL - The null device, anything written here is throw away.

These, plus CON, and the better known COM[1-9] and LPT[1-9] devices are all invalid filenames still today. More amusing, they are invalid even in combination with any file extension, i.e. naming a file aux.txt is an error as well.

Anyone been around long enough to remember ox.sys or winaux.sys?

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-Blake (com/bcdev/blake)
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QuestionHow to logon to different NT domains? Pin
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Generalsvchost.exe uses a lot of resources on Windows XP Pin
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