Anthony W. Youngman wrote Tuesday, January 06, 2009 7:09 PM
In message <e06a8345a5fe41f1bffeaebf3039f...@trevorlaptop>, Trevor
Daniels <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> writes
Aargh. This commit also implies creation of scripts/aux/. I don't
enjoy so much saying this, but the limitation we hit is worthwhile:
Windows sucks, I wish there were only Unix OSes. :-)
I can't really apologise for Windows, and I wasn't aware of this
limitation until I hit this problem and investigated, but I'm sorry
this has caused you extra work.
It's a dos limitation that has carried into Windows. And it bites
professionals. I recently had to teach my fellow (experienced!)
programmers that certain file names weren't permitted...
For future reference, the complete list is:
CLOCK$, AUX, CON, NUL, PRN, COM1, COM2, COM3,
COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2,
LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9
These are all device names in all Windows OSes.
The names are case-insensitive, and they cannot be
used as directory names or the first part of a
filename (the bit before the dot).
Trevor
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