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Oct 22, 2003
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What's the deal with those reserved filenames like NUL and CON?

Raymond Chen

Set the wayback machine to DOS 1.0. DOS 1.0 didn't support subdirectories, lowercase, or filenames longer than 8.3. When you ran the assembler (or compiler if you were really fancy) the conversation went something like this:    the ".asm" extension on "foo" is...

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