From: Andrew <andnews AT ihug DOT com DOT oz DOT au>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: stat and character devices
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 23:03:51 +1000
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>> I noticed that stat treats some character devices differently, depending
>> on whether it is run in a DOS box under Win98 or in plain DOS. The COM
>> series (com1, com2, etc.) shows as a character device when run under
>> plain DOS, but not in the DOS box under Win98.
>
>On my Windows 98 box, "ls -l com2" shows "com2" in yellow, which means
>`stat' did return the character-device bit set for it.  So I guess I
>cannot reproduce this here.
>
>> A test program that demonstrates this follows.
>
>You didn't show the results of running this program on Windows 98.
>Here are mine:
>
>    The value of base is com1
>    The value of st_dev is -1.
>    The value of st_mode is 8612.
>    The file is a character device.
>
>Exactly as I'd expect.
>
>So I guess more digging is required.
Could the differences be caused by the 2.03 v's 2.04 alpha 1
differences? 

Andrew