Dennis Jenkins <djenkinsat_private> writes: >He will access the device. This is documented in the book "Undocumented Dos" >(author, editor, press I don't remember). My copies claims to be by Schumann et al, published by Addison-Wesley. >In the early days of DOS, there was a reason why this was done. But I don't >remember that either. Speaking of the early days of DOS, this bug has been around for a long, long time. I remember being able to crash BBS's 10 years ago [0] by uploading zip files containing reserved names which would bring down the system when the BBS software scanned the file. I think later versions of Pkzip would try and check for reserved names to try and prevent this. Peter. [0] With the permission of the sysop, done as a demonstration.
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