After patches and more patches, major upgrades and even a new operating system, I have just realized that we still can’t create a folder called “AUX” in windows XPSP2. Well, actually, you can’t create a folder called CON, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN or NUL either.
I wonder if they will fix it in Vista or if that will require Administrator Privileges, pass through six dialogs, a digitally signed certificate and a recommendation letter =))
javi
Tampoco puedes crear un fichero que se llame aux, ni aux.txt, ni aux.*. Recuerdo que estuve un día entero atascado por temas de ese tipo.
en fin.
Liso
Acabo de probarlo en el del curro y no funciona.
Sorry, pero creo que es tu windows que huele tu alma MacEra :P
Liso
Vale, la resaca es mu mala, ya que lo que si me deja es un directorio llamado “aus” XDD
Que mal voy.
Jcl
If you want MS-DOS compatibility (and sadly, many people still does), that’s what you get. You can’t allow a program having a pipe to LPT1 and not know if it’s a file/directory or a parallel port :-)
No big surprises here… there are many (and way more important) things coming from the good old days still in XP (and which probably will be in Vista too).
sole
Jcl, I know, but after they said that XP was a major upgrade and that it wouldn’t work anymore with msdos programs etc etc… why didn’t they fix that part too? :D
Liso: te dije que los carajillos de bon mati no eran buenos!
Liso
Sole, la verdad es que tienes razón, ayer sali un “poquito” y me he levantado con “la tajá” puesta ;)
Jcl
sole: who said that? they actually said they improved ms-dos compatibility under XP (and they did), and they said it’d be even better in Vista.
It’s just that the OS doesn’t run -over- ms-dos (like 9x/Me did), but they never said ms-dos was going away.
Jcl
(afaik :) )
sole
Oh! then I just misunderstood it. so did they really say that ms dos was going to be still in Vista??
i can’t believe it!!
Jcl
Not ms-dos… ms-dos emulation (like in Windows XP). But since the filesystem is the same… I guess the device names for files and folders will still be limited to no AUX, LPTs or COMs :)
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