Comment on COM+ RevisitedparentComments−mgsouth4yIn 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,...
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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,...