Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Nuitari <nuitari@××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] OFF-TOPIC but ... you will lough !!!
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 03:54:44
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0511022247320.4212@melchior.nuitari.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] OFF-TOPIC but ... you will lough !!! by Taka John Brunkhorst
1 It's an old MS-DOS problem...
2 They are the name of devices (con, aux, etc)
3
4 It says for con:
5 Cannot create or replace file: The filename you specified is invalid or
6 too long.
7 Specify a different filename.
8
9 For aux:
10 Cannot rename : A file with the name you specified already exists.
11
12 The whole list of forbidden names (from memory):
13 aux (eg ttyS0), prn (eg lp0), com1 to com4, lpt1 to lpt3, con, nul and
14 clock$
15
16 On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Taka John Brunkhorst wrote:
17
18 > Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:42:14 +0800
19 > From: Taka John Brunkhorst <antiwmac@×××××.com>
20 > Reply-To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
21 > To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
22 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] OFF-TOPIC but ... you will lough !!!
23 >
24 > oh yea, just booted my win2000 japanese version on vmware tryed to create
25 > 'con' FOLDER but it claimed file name is too short or something,
26 > I donno what english version say
27 > what is it?
28 >
29 > --
30 > antiwmac@×××××.com
31 > Taka John Brunkhorst
32 >
33 --
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] OFF-TOPIC but ... you will lough !!! Billy Holmes <billy@××××××.net>