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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 15 Apr 2010 17:20
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Scott Sauyet wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Scott Sauyet wrote:
>>> Andrew Poulos wrote:
>>>> Try naming a text file con.txt
>>> Or aux.gif, or lpt1.pdf, or com3.html, or anything else using one of
>>> the DOS reserved words.
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Pardon?
>
> from Wikipedia article on filenames [1]:
>
> | In addition, in Windows and DOS, some words might also be reserved
> | and can not be used as filenames.[3] For example, DOS Device file:
> |
> | CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL
> | COM0, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9
> | LPT0, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.

I was aware of that list, but I find especially the term "reserved word" in
that context misleading. Microsoft does not use it, they use "reserved
device name" instead.

I was not aware that it is not possible to create con.txt etc. on WinDOS (I
have tried to create COM3.txt in Wine and DOSEMU). Thanks for that.
However, I wonder as to the reason why `echo foo > COM3.txt' attempts to
write to COM3.


PointedEars
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