Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 22:15:13 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: dd@FreeBSD.org Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install chapter.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ppp-primer book.sgml Message-ID: <20020323.221513.77324491.imp@village.org> In-Reply-To: <200203240406.g2O46s399215@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200203240406.g2O46s399215@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: Some parts of the documentation are using COM1:
: instead of COM1 to describe the first serial interface
: in MS-DOS. The device name should be COM1, ':' was used
: as separator by the mode command.
Actually, COM1: was used by many programs as the device, and accepted
by MS-DOS as a legitimate filename (cf LTP:). However, MS-DOS also
accepted COM1 as a device too, which is why you can't have a filename
called COM1.TXT on DOS :-(
Warner
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