4 Jul
2013
4 Jul
'13
7:17 a.m.
On 04/07/13 11:27, Daniel Díaz Casanueva wrote:
OK, thank you for your respense, Gregory. That was the whole problem and now it is fixed. Just for the sake of curiosity, why is that name (with any extension) not allowed in Windows?
It was used to refer to serial ports under DOS, and Microsoft have a particularly paranoid approach to preserving backwards compatibility: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUX:#Reserved_device_names Miles [who is now trying to remember when he last owned a computer with a serial port!]