Date:	Sun, 30 Jun 2002 09:31:40 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: Using /dev/ as a real path
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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.

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