Surprise from the past

20060531, filed on funny

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 =))

// 11 responses to Surprise from the past

javi
20060531

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
20060601

Acabo de probarlo en el del curro y no funciona.
Sorry, pero creo que es tu windows que huele tu alma MacEra :P

Liso
20060601

Vale, la resaca es mu mala, ya que lo que si me deja es un directorio llamado "aus" XDD

Que mal voy.

Jcl
20060601

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
20060601

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
20060601

Sole, la verdad es que tienes razón, ayer sali un "poquito" y me he levantado con "la tajá" puesta ;)

Jcl
20060601

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
20060601

(afaik :) )

sole
20060601

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
20060601

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 :)