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Originally Posted by
fpmurphy
On Windows, if you use '\\.\' you get access to the device namespace. File namespace (the default) is accessed via '\\?\'
Only by certain special means. As usual the user gets none of that.
That's what I see as the big difference between UNIX and Windows... The shell on UNIX is there to help you access what's there, the shell on Windows is there to stop you from accessing what's there.