BTW, I tried to do a quick workaround for the com<x> lpt<x> problem by appending an extension of ".col" to the names of directories that are managed. Wouldn't work. DOS *still* complains even when you try to create a directory called "com1.col"
Another alternative would be to prepend the names with an underscore or better defined prefix. It wouldn't hurt, and would allow all you DOS/Win people to create collections that match reserved filenames.
-- Tom Bradford - http://www.tbradford.org Architect - XQRL (XQuery Engine) - http://www.xqrl.com Apache Xindice (Native XML Database) - http://xml.apache.org Project Labrador (Web Services Framework) - http://notdotnet.org
