From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id:	<10206300719.AA14320@clio.rice.edu>
Subject:	Re: Using /dev/ as a real path
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date:	Sun, 30 Jun 2002 02:19:55 -0500 (CDT)
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> On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu wrote:
> 
> > Is there a reason to strip /dev/ from the start of the string if we don't
> > recognize the device type?
> 
> The reason is that there are no limitations on the names of DOS devices.  
> Any device driver can install a device with up to 8 upper-case letters, 
> and plug it into the DOS device chain.  We want to be able to support 
> /dev/foo if there's a device called FOO, and we don't want to limit that 
> to the names of standard devices like PRN and AUX.

I understand why we would want to support this for unix type devices,
but why would we want or need to support /dev/prn instead of just PRN?

If a \dev directory really exists, how can we support it?

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