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    In MS-DOS, several special "device files" were available to aid in performing ce rtain tasks. All versions of Windows up to and including Windows Vista will refuse to allow you to create a file with these "reserved" device file names. The following file names are reserved: CON PRN AUX NUL COM1 COM2 COM3 COM4 COM5 COM6 COM7 COM8 COM9 LPT1 LPT2 LPT3 L

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    In MS-DOS, several special "device files" were available to aid in performing ce rtain tasks. All versions of Windows up to and including Windows Vista will refuse to allow you to create a file with these "reserved" device file names. The following file names are reserved: CON PRN AUX NUL COM1 COM2 COM3 COM4 COM5 COM6 COM7 COM8 COM9 LPT1 LPT2 LPT3 L

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    Strange Fact in DOS

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    In MS-DOS, several special "device files" were available to aid in performing ce rtain tasks. All versions of Windows up to and including Windows Vista will refuse to allow you to create a file with these "reserved" device file names. The following file names are reserved: CON PRN AUX NUL COM1 COM2 COM3 COM4 COM5 COM6 COM7 COM8 COM9 LPT1 LPT2 LPT3 L

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    In MS-DOS, several special "device files" were available to aid in performing ce rtain tasks, such as clearing the screen

    or deleting extraneous output from a pr ogram. In order to maintain backwards-compatibility, all versions of Windows up to and including Windows Vista will refuse to allow you to create a file with th ese "reserved" device file names. The following file names are reserved: CON PRN AUX NUL COM1 COM2 COM3 COM4 COM5 COM6 COM7 COM8 COM9 LPT1 LPT2 LPT3 LPT4 LPT5 LPT6 LPT7 LPT8 LPT9 CON, incidentally, was a device file used to capture whatever was printed onscre en

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