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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:28:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Curt Mills <archer AT eskimo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: "test -c com1" hangs on some WinXP systems
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Larry Hall wrote:

> "com" is a reserved name in Windows.  It's best to steer clear of it in
> any context you can.  You may be catching it in your "if test -c com1"
> version.

We'd _love_ to steer clear of it, particularly since /dev/ttyS0
works for two of our targeted systems.

We need to know that the "if test -c /dev/ttyS0" will work on all
Cygwin boxes from Win95 through WinXP.  The test for "com1" was
working just fine except for very recently on a few WinXP systems
(but appears to work on other WinXP boxes).

I'm delaying a new release and staying with the "if test -d
/proc/registry" bit until we can get that question answered.  That
last works but it's ugly.

-- 
Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo dot com
http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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