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From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: M$ - so what should they do? 

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 02:37:22 EDT, Todd Burroughs said:

> Maybe having "magic" names that don't start with '/dev' (i.e., some known
> prefix) is a mistake, but I think that's a minor issue.

Actually, this sub-thread is entirely about the fact that magic names aren't a minor
issue - referencing con.txt or prn.txt gets some non-intuitive results. ;)
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