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From: dhw@itivax.iti.org (David H. West)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: It doesn't matter which (ZOO/ARC), just try to be sensible!
Message-ID: <2047@itivax.iti.org>
Date: 10 Jul 89 14:31:01 GMT
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Reply-To: dhw@itivax.UUCP (David H. West)
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In article <8588@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US> chasm@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US (Charles Marslett) writes:
>I also remember giving up once, because the file name was impossible to
>extract under MSDOS -- I wish I couldremember what the prblem was here.

One otherwise excellent piece of public-domain software, developed
under UNIX, contains files named aux.*.  These are unable to exist
under MSDOS, which regards aux (and apparently also aux.*) as a
reserved name referring to the COM port.

-David West            dhw@itivax.iti.org
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