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Re: Strange XY3 behaviour

** Reply to note from xywrite@xxxxxxxx Wed, 9 Dec 1998 10:29:45 +0900 (JST)


> Did I, after all these years, stumble upon a XY3 bug? I wanted to
> save a file to floppy and typed "sa b:con". XY first told me
> there was a file of that name (there was not),

Oh yes there is!

> and when I told it
> to overwrite, it completely freaked out. I rebooted and tried again --
> same thing. What is this? Does the "con" interfere with the "con" DOS
> command? Or was this just a fluke?

CON is a reserved device name, i.e. your console. You can't SAve it. You might
DeFine the text, and SAD to a filename.



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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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