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Subject: Re: ports backup corrupted windows
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On Tuesday 10 May 2005 08:58, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> PRN: is a device under Windows, specifically the first printer port.
>
> How did you create this file?  If you attempted to create it in Windows,
> the operating system would have rejected it.  What you will have to do
> is mount the DOS partition under UNIX and access it from the UNIX side
> directly.
>
> Ted
>
<snip>

I have had things like this before. Any idea how to do this on an ntfs slice, 
since all the open soucer ntfs drivers I have come accross are read only?

/Xian