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From: dan@prairie.UUCP (Daniel M. Frank)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Device Names in MS-DOS
Message-ID: <206@prairie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Sep-86 01:13:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: prairie.206
Posted: Sun Sep 28 01:13:36 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 07:58:12 EDT
References: <10800015@mcomp>
Reply-To: dan@prairie.UUCP (Daniel M. Frank)
Organization: Prairie Computing, Madison, Wisconsin
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In article <10800015@mcomp> p40001@mcomp.UUCP writes:
>Repeatedly during the past few months I have come across C source
>specifically for MS-DOS systems, which used names such as
>"/dev/con" for the console device ...
>Is this notation an undocumented feature of DOS, or a feature of
>a particular C compiler, or is it simply an error?

   It's an undocumented feature of DOS.  You can use the /dev/ pathname
notation anywhere you would normally use the device name.
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