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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 19:35:21 -0500
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: device names tidbit
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In-Reply-To: <20000107173242.A25742@cygnus.com>; from cgf@cygnus.com on Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 05:32:42PM -0500

On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 05:32:42PM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
>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?

I would be really interested in hearing opinions on this.  Should we
open files in such a way that we can create an "aux" or a "com"?
Should this be the default?

Should we ask the general list?

cgf