Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:15:40 -0400 From: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sh scripting question Message-ID: <20201016161540.00001abd@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <69FD7F52-B1D9-4540-9379-CD3122BEDBB6@jschneider.net> References: <69FD7F52-B1D9-4540-9379-CD3122BEDBB6@jschneider.net>
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 19:07:41 +0100, Jon Schneider commented: >There’s a YouTube publisher called enderman who shows how how >inconsistently these special CP/M and DOS file names are handled in >Windows. He does things like create install Windows itself into con. I >have found you can total OneNote for Windows users by creating a >notebook called for example “con”. > >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcAdgcAvTCs&t=221s > >Having watched these I am convinced Microsoft should have simply >allowed them in Windows. Currently there is a horrible mess. > >As for the original problem the only (and safe and portable way among >all OSs that use C language interfaces) is to assume that the null >character is the only safe separator in file lists. Because of the >underlying C language interfaces. I had no problem creating a notebook named "con". I cannot seem to delete it though. I will have to look into that. -- Jerry
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