I always wondered if COM+, the new version of COM, was originally going to be named COM2 ... until somebody tried to create a new visual studio project in a directory named COM2...
In case you're going "???"--MS-DOS and (until xx?) Windows treated some file names as special device names: CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, LPTn, COMn,...[0] And even if Windows supports (or hides) it now, no doubt ramifications linger on in apps.
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I always wondered if COM+, the new version of COM, was originally going to be named COM2 ... until somebody tried to create a new visual studio project in a directory named COM2...
In case you're going "???"--MS-DOS and (until xx?) Windows treated some file names as special device names: CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, LPTn, COMn,...[0] And even if Windows supports (or hides) it now, no doubt ramifications linger on in apps.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_file#PC_DOS,_TOS,_OS/2,...