It's a running joke in the financial community that the three symbols
you never want your company to listed as are AUX, CON or PRT. Try even
creating a text file on your desktop named AUX.txt


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Director of Operations | Purchase, NY 10577
OTA LLC                | Phone: 914-460-4039 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Giles Malet
> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 1:41 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Windows, POSIX/NFS, filenames and backups
> 
> Dave Mussulman <mussulma AT CS.UIUC DOT EDU> writes:
> 
> > under SFU/NFS you can create a file named "test" and a 
> directory named 
> > "Test" -- and it will create them and manage them as expected under 
> > NFS.  When you browse them with Explorer, both files exist (a case 
> > that couldn't happen if you created them both in Windows,) but you 
> > can't access one of them.
> 
> If you want hours of fun you should try create a directory 
> called, say, PRN, or CON, or any of a list of reserved device 
> names. We've had Mac users do this to exported Windoze 
> filesystems in the past, and be surprised to learn later that 
> the whole subtree was excluded from backups.
> 
> Don't know if this is still a problem. We saw it a couple of 
> years ago.
> 
> gdm
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