device names tidbit

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Fri Jan 7 14:33:00 GMT 2000


On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:28:59PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>I just ran across this in MSDN.  I wonder if we should use this trick
>to be able to create/delete otherwise "reserved" names?

Yeah, I knew about this.  I am leery of introducing something into the
filesystem which can't be manipulated by normal Microsoft tools.

Maybe it's a configuration option candidate?

cgf


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