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From: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker AT butlermfg DOT org>
To: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
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Subject: RE: device names tidbit
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:14:54 -0600
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Just curious what MS tools you are referring to.  The command line tools
handle it just fine using the prefix.  This includes attrib, del, file
redirection and others.  It is only the shell, Explorer, that I recall
choking when you try to delete these files.  I have seen a number of
applications create filenames that Explorer could not delete.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf AT cygnus DOT com]
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 4:33 PM
To: DJ Delorie
Cc: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: device names tidbit


On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:28:59PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>I just ran across this in MSDN.  I wonder if we should use this trick
>to be able to create/delete otherwise "reserved" names?

Yeah, I knew about this.  I am leery of introducing something into the
filesystem which can't be manipulated by normal Microsoft tools.

Maybe it's a configuration option candidate?

cgf