in reply to Re: Filenames of "PRN" (or "PrN" etc) on Win32.
in thread Filenames of "PRN" (or "PrN" etc) on Win32.

If anyone cares, this the output for me on win2k:
IO CON AUX PRN CLOCK$ COM1 LPT1 LPT2 LPT3 COM2 COM3 COM4 MSDOS IO KBD HIMEM XMSXXXX0 COMMAND MSDOS COMMAND DOSX MEM MEM MSDOS SYSTEM MSDOS MSCDEXNT DOSX VWIPXSPX MSDOS SYSTEM IO MOUSE REDIR NW16 MSDOS

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Re^3: Filenames of "PRN" (or "PrN" etc) on Win32.
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 16, 2004 at 05:11 UTC
    Only those under the first IO are relevant:
    CON AUX PRN CLOCK\$ LPT\d+ COM\d+
    There's also NUL, not listed.
Re^3: Filenames of "PRN" (or "PrN" etc) on Win32.
by PhilHibbs (Hermit) on Aug 16, 2004 at 09:54 UTC
    I get this on Win2K SP4:
      Address     Name          Size       Type 
      -------     --------     ------     ------
      000000                   000400     Interrupt Vector
      000400                   000100     ROM Communication Area
      000500                   000200     DOS Communication Area
    
      000700      IO           000370     System Data
                      CON                   System Device Driver 
                      AUX                   System Device Driver 
                      PRN                   System Device Driver 
                      CLOCK$                System Device Driver 
                      COM1                  System Device Driver 
                      LPT1                  System Device Driver 
                      LPT2                  System Device Driver 
                      LPT3                  System Device Driver 
                      COM2                  System Device Driver 
                      COM3                  System Device Driver 
                      COM4                  System Device Driver 
    
      000A70      MSDOS        001670     System Data
    
      0020E0      IO           003120     System Data
                    KBD        000CD0      System Program 
                    ANSI       001060      DEVICE=    
                      CON                   Installed Device Driver 
                    HIMEM      0004E0      DEVICE=    
                      XMSXXXX0              Installed Device Driver 
                               000490      FILES=     
                               000090      FCBS=      
                               0001B0      LASTDRIVE= 
                               0007D0      STACKS=    
      005210      COMMAND      000A20     Program   
      005C40      MSDOS        000070     -- Free --
      005CC0      COMMAND      000BA0     Environment
      006870      DOSX         0087A0     Program   
      00F020      MEM          000AB0     Environment
      00FAE0      KB16         0017D0     Program   
      0112C0      MEM          017550     Program   
      028820      MSDOS        0777C0     -- Free --
      09FFF0      SYSTEM       02F000     System Program
    
      0CF000      IO           003100     System Data
                    MOUSE      0030F0      System Program 
      0D2110      MSDOS        000AC0     -- Free --
      0D2BE0      MSCDEXNT     0001D0     Program   
      0D2DC0      REDIR        000A70     Program   
      0D3840      DOSX         000080     Data      
      0D38D0      MSDOS        00C720     -- Free --
    
    
        655360 bytes total conventional memory
        655360 bytes available to MS-DOS
        584992 largest executable program size
    
       1048576 bytes total contiguous extended memory
             0 bytes available contiguous extended memory
        941056 bytes available XMS memory
               MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area
    
    Oddly, if I don't redirect the output it clears the screen halfway through. Must be generating a spurious character somewhere, which doesn't occur if you > the output.