On  in a message to Jeff Patten, Mark Kimes wrote:

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.

It's not OS/2's amusing habit, but rather CMD.EXE's.  4OS2, for
instance, lists devices in whatever the current directory happens to
be.


Ed Blackman

... I was playing with my mental blocks and I came up with an idea.
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