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On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 07:53:34AM +0000, Ed Avis wrote:
> Tom Christiansen <tchrist <at> perl.com> writes:
> >As for arbitrary filenames, you're forgetting some history again. Notice
> >why there's no aux.sh hints file. Try creating con.tmp or aux.plx on
> >some systems.
>
> I used to use MS-DOS and I am aware of COM, NUL and other crappy magic filenames
> on that system. Computer archaeologists may be able to give other examples.
> But I don't think that ought to stop <> being 8-bit clean for filenames today.
Have you tried recently?
http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/hw.zip
$ unzip -l ~/public_html/hw.zip
Archive: /home/nick/public_html/hw.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
13 08-03-08 11:01 hw/nul.txt
-------- -------
13 1 file
Downloaded to a PC running XP. XP can open a file explorer directly on the
zip, but double clicking on nul.txt has no effect. Attempting to drag nul.txt
to the desktop brought up a dialogue to the effect of "do you want to replace
an existing file of 0 bytes with a file of 13 bytes?" Click OK, and the copy
completes.
Except that there is no file on the desktop.
G-reat.
It would seem that the CP/M device files are still alive and well 20 years on.
Are they still present on Vista?
Nicholas Clark
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