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From: bob@lznh.UUCP (<10000>Bob Lemley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What is .Bout for?!?
Message-ID: <327@lznh.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 18:26:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: lznh.327
Posted: Wed Oct 14 18:26:00 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 05:32:51 EDT
References: <870003@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Organization: AT&T
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Summary: Bad language libraries maybe?

In article <870003@hpcilzb.HP.COM>, tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes:
> Could someone please tell me what a .Bout file is for?  A plain
> document icon called .Bout appears every now and then in a folder full
> of PD software. 

The serial port drivers in the Mac system are named ".Aout" and ".Bout".
I have also seen this problem and assume that one of the
applications attempted to open the driver and opened a file instead.