Comments for North Coast Computer Services http://www.northcoastcomputerservices.com/blog Computer Help, Network Services and Technical Support Fri, 09 May 2008 14:48:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 Comment on Windows Weirdness by spock http://www.northcoastcomputerservices.com/blog/microsoft/windows/windows-weirdness/45#comment-7 spock Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:38:41 +0000 http://www.northcoastcomputerservices.com/blog/microsoft/windows/windows-weirdness/45#comment-7 No thanks are necessary. It's all in a day's work, explaining DOS from back in the day of floppy disks for all the Windows users now 20 years later. It's not like there's a logical system to this wonderful OS. Atleast the device NUL still works. Open your console and try "move C:\WINDOWS NUL:" Don't worry, atleast a modern Windows won't let you do that. You can copy stuff to NUL however. It's the equivalent of /dev/null on unix based systems, that is "nothing." But the logic ends there, since by moving a file to /dev/null on a unix based system it logically deletes the file, while the move command in Windows doesn't do that. The NUL: device is useful for console batch files if you don't want any output. Just redirect output by using >NUL: and all messages go to bit heaven. It doesn't work on pop-ups and dialog boxes however, since it's all DOS... er, I mean "console." No thanks are necessary. It’s all in a day’s work, explaining DOS from back in the day of floppy disks for all the Windows users now 20 years later. It’s not like there’s a logical system to this wonderful OS. Atleast the device NUL still works. Open your console and try “move C:\WINDOWS NUL:”

Don’t worry, atleast a modern Windows won’t let you do that. You can copy stuff to NUL however. It’s the equivalent of /dev/null on unix based systems, that is “nothing.” But the logic ends there, since by moving a file to /dev/null on a unix based system it logically deletes the file, while the move command in Windows doesn’t do that.

The NUL: device is useful for console batch files if you don’t want any output. Just redirect output by using >NUL: and all messages go to bit heaven. It doesn’t work on pop-ups and dialog boxes however, since it’s all DOS… er, I mean “console.”

]]> Comment on Windows Weirdness by Nimda http://www.northcoastcomputerservices.com/blog/microsoft/windows/windows-weirdness/45#comment-5 Nimda Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:28:56 +0000 http://www.northcoastcomputerservices.com/blog/microsoft/windows/windows-weirdness/45#comment-5 Thanks for the explanation spock. Now I know why you can't create folder names with those reserved words like lpt1 and the ones that you mentioned. Thanks. Thanks for the explanation spock. Now I know why you can’t create folder names with those reserved words like lpt1 and the ones that you mentioned. Thanks.

]]> Comment on Windows Weirdness by spock http://www.northcoastcomputerservices.com/blog/microsoft/windows/windows-weirdness/45#comment-4 spock Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:21:56 +0000 http://www.northcoastcomputerservices.com/blog/microsoft/windows/windows-weirdness/45#comment-4 The explanation is simple enough, you can't create for example "com1" or "com2" either. These are reserved names for devices, "con" being the console, "com1" being the first RS-232 port, etc. The explanation is simple enough, you can’t create for example “com1″ or “com2″ either. These are reserved names for devices, “con” being the console, “com1″ being the first RS-232 port, etc.

]]> Comment on New Vista User problem… by Nimda http://www.northcoastcomputerservices.com/blog/oss/vista/new-vista-user-problem/20#comment-3 Nimda Thu, 31 May 2007 06:52:02 +0000 http://www.northcoastcomputerservices.com/blog/oss/vista/new-vista-user-problem/20#comment-3 I do that from time to time. Thanks. I do that from time to time. Thanks.

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