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List:       vim-dev
Subject:    Re: A strange but true occurrance
From:       "George Reilly" <george () reilly ! org>
Date:       2006-01-31 18:50:47
Message-ID: 20060131185047.A1C279E83E () ws6-2 ! us4 ! outblaze ! com
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Tony wrote:
> On Dos (and Windows), CON is a device (the console screen and keyboard,
> equivalent to what Unix calls /dev/tty). *Regardless* of any extension
> or path, you *cannot* assign it to anything else such as a disk file.
> Similarly for:
> 
> [snip]
> COM2, COM3,... - additional serial lines, if present

Correct. Ain't backward compatibility fun!

The technology now known as COM+ was briefly known as COM3 inside of Microsoft, until \
people started realizing that specs with names like COM3.doc just weren't going to \
                work.
-- 
/George V. Reilly  mailto:george@reilly.org
http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog/


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