Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: > On 8/26/08, Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is probably an urban legend that nobody can answer this: CON is a >> reserved device name (console, try echo asdf > CON) like e.g. COM1. You >> can't create a folder called COM1 either if you're system has COM1. > > I expected something like that, but would the same then apply to > something like STDOUT? Yet I can create a file named STDOUT > > > I still can't find a logical reason for (2).
It's a bug in notepad which guesses the encoding wrong. I saw once an explaination ... wait ... wikipedia knows it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
