OT: Why does XP choke on the filename - "com1.gif"

[Martin Baxter]

>Thomas-
>
>Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 6:26:55 AM, you wrote:
>
>TMI> I believe com1 - com23 are the reserved com port names. I just read
>TMI> that somewhere?
>
>There are other reserved words as well: LPT, PRN, NUL, I'm sure there
>are others that I can't think of off the top of my head. It's a
>holdover from DOS commandlines where you don't need the trailing colon
>in order to reference a logical device:
>
>COPY FILE.TXT COM1
>

Thanks for explaining that, yes of course, MSDOS, I thought they finally
dumped that ?

But really, a multi-user, multi-tasking, allegedly "modern" operating
system that can't tell a reference to a file on disk from a reference to a
serial port?

I think I'm actually shocked.

Martin Baxter