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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Date: Wed,  5 Jan 2011 12:52:50 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Windows XP names
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On Wednesday, January 05, 2011 12:36:40 pm Artem Novikov wrote:
> Under WIndows XP I cannot copy these files
>
> sys\src\9\boot\aux.c
> sys\src\cmd\con\con.c	=)
>
> and these directories
>
> sys\src\cmd\con\
> sys\src\cmd\aux\
>
> from Plan 9 source tree, because Windows don't allow anyone create
> directories or files with names "aux", "con".
>
> *LOL*

lol indeed; thanks to backward compatibility. Back in the heyday of DOS, you
could
copy CON FILE.txt
(typety typety typety)
^Z

and you got a nice file :D

or, perhaps,
copy FILE.txt LPT1
and have it printed

in any case, the limitation is not in filesystem, neither in handling of
directory access; there's a `hack' involving a somewhat twisted pathname to
create the directory; see the discussion at

http://kerneltrap.org/node/5772

--
dexen deVries


``You want to make your way in the CS field? Simple. Calculate rough time of
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people, and it can work for you.''  - Ron Minnich