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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 20:22:53 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:14:54AM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>> Actually, just creating a file named 'con' would probably be easier.
>
>Isn't 'con' a reserved name in windows?

That's kinda the whole point.

>I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be able to extract it from the tar
>archive.

It works just as I would expect, and just like /dev/tty works, which
is no surprise.  The drawback is that it won't do anything if you're
running from rxvt or X-Windows, though.

cgf

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