Date:	Mon, 1 Jul 2002 07:41:40 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu
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Subject:	Re: Using /dev/ as a real path
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On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu wrote:

> > 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?

For consistency, and also because DOS pretends that \dev exists even if 
it doesn't.

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

I don't know.  If someone has a suggestion for how to solve this without 
sacrificing /dev/foo, please speak up.

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