Re: Adding FGL to the hierarchical libraries

Carl Witty writes:

In case people haven't figured it out by the file names, these are the Windows equivalent of Unix character special files. "nul:" is very similar to the Unix "/dev/null"; except that instead of being stuffed away in /dev, Windows pretends there's a copy in every directory (so instead of using "/dev/null", you could use "nul:", or ".\nul", or "..\nul.asdffdsa", or "c:\Nul.hs"; all are equivalent).

Aha, this suggests that it was in MSDOS 1.0 - the "every directory" semantics would have been given in MSDOS 2.0 for backwards compatibility, since pre-2.0 there were no directories. Ouch. We're talking something like 23 years here, at least... :-( --KW 8-)