[Lazarus] In the name of science

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 8/26/08, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> This is probably an urban legend that nobody can answer this: CON is a
>  reserved device name (console, try echo asdf > CON) like e.g. COM1. You
>  can't create a folder called COM1 either if you're system has COM1.

I expected something like that, but would the same then apply to
something like STDOUT?  Yet I can create a file named STDOUT


I still can't find a logical reason for (2).

(3) is really handy if you need a instant Word document of 260 pages!  :-)


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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