[Patch]: NUL and other special names

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Thu Jun 3 21:09:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:55:05PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>>I believe that whenever I try to limit COM to single digits someone
>>complains about their special board with 527 com ports or something.
>
>That's another issue.  COM12 is not a DOS device (on NT), but it can be
>the basename of an NT device.

How do you know that it isn't a DOS device on NT?

cgf



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