Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3D7D0312.98F68DA0@csksoftware.com> Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 22:22:42 +0200 From: "Johan Bezem" Organization: CSK Software AG X-Accept-Language: en,de,nl,el,fr,af,es,it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rainford Alan" Cc: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: Is com0 a reserved name ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20010407 Yes, just like 'com1' 'com2' up to (AFAIK) 'com9', and 'lpt1', 'lpt2', 'lpt2', 'prn' and all those old-fashioned DOS-device names (sigh). This was the case in DOS version 3.x (maybe even before), and still is in all windows versions (for compatibility reasons in the respective DOS-boxes), again AFAIK. Years ago, this took me two days of debugging; they've been more than made up for by being able to guide several younger colleagues since then, however ;-) Ciao, Johan Bezem CSK Software AG "Rainford, Alan" wrote: > > When I attempt to create a directory name com0 (no not for the device) I get > "mkdir: `com0' exits but is not a directory. No matter where I attempt to > make the directory I get this message. If I create the directory under the > windows cmd shell and then do a ls the directory will appear as > "crw-rw-rw-". > > Alan Rainford > Gtech Corp. > Springfield, Il 62702 > alan.rainford@gtech.com > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/