Microsoft KB article about it: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;74496
Another one describing how to remove them if they somehow exist: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;120716 Interesting since it appears to use some built in bypasses for the DEL and RD commands. This one provides some background as why: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;71843 No explaination as to why dev.* causes any problems, maybe the treat anything past the dot as parameters for the device, who knows, anybody know a MS solution provider to ask? Chuck Frolick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davide Libenzi Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:24 AM To: XMail mailing list Subject: [xmail] Re: help (fwd) On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Thomas Berger wrote: > > Calin Florescu wrote: > > > > Apparently it's impossible to create on Windows a file or a folder having > > the name starting with "com" followed by a digit (0-9) and dot "." > > ("com4.com.br", "com1.ro" or "com9."). Probably because is similar with > > serial ports notation. > > > It *is* DOS device notation: Those special files do > exist everywhere, therefore you don't have to redirect > to /dev/something but can use something whereever you > are. "com1" "prn" "lpt" "nul" might be fine, even if I prefer the /dev/com1 notation that enables myself to have a "com1" file name in another directory. "com1[.*]" is definitely *not* OK to be treated as special file. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
