WEIRD - 2

[G.Kumaraguru]

Im using WIN98.

When I try to Rename a file to
' comx.htm ' where x is a number I get
Access denied Message.

But When I change the Extension to html it's Ok..
Does this happen to you ???

[Cybrg641]

happened to me too...that is weird

[Benjamin]

that happened to me too... wouldn't even let me do it from DOS..

[G.Kumaraguru]

May be It's Something to avoid confusing
with the ports..COM1 COM2 etc....
or something realy stupid that microsoft never
documented.

[G.Kumaraguru]

OK, I found out the reason..
When you try to save a text file
from Notepad as com1.htm you will learn the reason
why it is so...

The file name is a reserved device name.
That is

com1.htm
com2.htm
com3.htm
com4.htm

and LPT1.htm to LPT9.htm are Reserved device names.
and the dos name for say Com1.html is not com1.htm
instead it is Com1~1.htm. therefore no problem

Note :
This is the case for any three letter Extension and not only
for htm

[Edited by G.Kumaraguru on 01-03-2001 at 09:51 AM]

[itay222]

cool!
on my winNT it won't allow
comn.xxx
where n is a digit
and xxx is any extention.

the error message is:
A file with the name you specified already exists.

[parksie]

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