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From: jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What is .Bout for?!?
Message-ID: <4058@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 20:59:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  8 20:59:13 1987
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In article <870003@hpcilzb.HP.COM>, tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes:
> Could someone please tell me what a .Bout file is for?  

All Macintosh device drivers begin with a period, thus the Device
Manager and File Manager should know better than to try to create
a file named '.Bout'.  I can't explain how you're getting the file.

'.BOut', incidentally, is the device a Mac program opens to
output to the printer port.
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