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echo: os2prog
to: Ed Blackman
from: Mark Kimes
date: 1995-01-22 06:37:44
subject: Re: Available Devices

>GC> Hmmph!  Well, I'll be!  CMD.EXE does, in fact, display the contents
 >GC> of the \DEV directory (only NUL on my system).

 >MK> Now try "DIR COM1" or "DIR PRN" or... :-)

 >JP>   The original message asked for a way to get a *list* of
 >JP> available devices.

 >MK> The message to which I replied indicated the writer didn't know about
 >MK> OS/2's amusing habit of listing devices in a \DEV directory.

 EB>It's not OS/2's amusing habit, but rather CMD.EXE's.

Last time I checked, CMD.EXE was part of OS/2.

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