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Message-ID: <42DBBE52.4060700@easynix.net> Date: Mon Jul 18 15:36:17 2005 From: devis at easynix.net (devis) Subject: hehelol als@...ngorodrim.de wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 08:16:47PM +0200, kcope wrote: > >>hello, this is kcope and i?m bored .. soo >> >>sending an email with an attachment named aux to a Microsoft Outlook >>client crashes Outlook, can someone confirm that? > > > This crap _still_ works? > > This kind of crash is a legacy from MS-DOS and AFAIK only works on the > Windows 9X/ME series (as in "graphic shell on top of MS-DOS" windows) > of Windows, it should not work on the NT kernel based versions (NT, > 2000, XP, 2003). > > Anybody to test it on a version of Windows based on the NT kernel? (I > run $FREEUNIX, so no way to test it myself). It shouldn't work there. > > Regards, > Alex. Try to make a folder on ur XP sp2 all patched ( yes supposedly NT based ) named aux, nul, con, lpt1, lpt2, com1, com2 ... basically all MS-DOS reserved device names... Was left to know it crashed some Outlook. -d.
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