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Re: M$ - so what should they do?

From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:01:22 -0400

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 02:37:22 EDT, Todd Burroughs said:

Maybe having "magic" names that don't start with '/dev' (i.e., some known
prefix) is a mistake, but I think that's a minor issue.


Actually, this sub-thread is entirely about the fact that magic names aren't a minor
issue - referencing con.txt or prn.txt gets some non-intuitive results. ;)

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RE: M$ - so what should they do? Stuart Fox (DSL AK) (Jun 21)
- Re: M$ - so what should they do? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 21)
  - Re: M$ - so what should they do? Todd Burroughs (Jun 22)
    - Re: M$ - so what should they do? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 22)
- Re: M$ - so what should they do? Aditya, ALD [ Aditya Lalit Deshmukh ] (Jun 22)
  - Re: M$ - so what should they do? Duncan Hill (Jun 22)
- Re: M$ - so what should they do? Mohit Muthanna (Jun 22)
- Re: M$ - so what should they do? Ciro Spider-Man (Jun 24)
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- RE: M$ - so what should they do? Stuart Fox (DSL AK) (Jun 21)
- RE: M$ - so what should they do? Stuart Fox (DSL AK) (Jun 21)
  - RE: M$ - so what should they do? Eric Paynter (Jun 21)
- Re: M$ - so what should they do? tcleary2 (Jun 21)
  - Re: M$ - so what should they do? Eric Paynter (Jun 21)
- RE: M$ - so what should they do? Edge, Ronald D (Jun 22)

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