From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Ruiter de M)
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Subject: Re: DJGPP on drive c: and sources on drive d: PROBLEM
Date: 30 Mar 1998 14:55:17 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:
> Don't call any of your top-level directories "dev".

Maybe we could ask Microsoft to write this on every computer they sell
operating systems for. :-)

Is `\DEV' used in DOS itself? I read the DOS-special devices (CON,
NUL, etc) exist in \DEV even if \DEV doesn't exist. Is this documented
behaviour? Or is it a DJGPP quirk maybe?

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