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I created a file named aux.docx on a pendrive with Linux. Tried to open it on windows 7. It crashed word with a strange error. Don't know what would happen on 8

• monocasa 2y ago
  It's a dos holdover implemented in the win32 side of things in user space. I'm pretty sure it still exists on win11. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40794287/cannot-write-to-any-path-with-filename-aux https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40794287/cannot-write-to...
• uncanneyvalley 2y ago
  It would fail, too. ‘CON’ has been a reserved name since the days of DOS (actually CP/M, though that doesn’t have direct lineage to Windows) where it acted as a device name for the console. You can still use it that way. In a CMD window: `type CON > file.txt`, then type some stuff and press CTRL+Z. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/namin...
  • nullindividual 2y ago
    This is a Win32-ism rather than an NT-ism. This will work: mkdir \\.\C:\COM1