Re: [hatari-devel] Bug in Gemdos emulation

["Roger Burrows" <anodyne@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5 Mar 2017 at 0:01, Eero Tamminen wrote:
>
> On 03/03/2017 02:46 PM, Thorsten Otto wrote:
> > When trying to redirect something to NUL: i get
> >
> > c:\> echo x > NUL:
> > Konnte NUL: nicht öffnen
> > c:\>
>
> GEMDOS HD emulation handles only paths & files belonging to
> the GEMDOS HD drive, anything else is left for TOS to handle.
>
> Above means that your TOS had no idea about what "NUL:" is.
>
> Neither has TOS documentation:
> http://toshyp.atari.org/en/005009.html#Fopen
>
>
> > Redirecting to CON: seems to work.
>
> That *is* a special file handle supported by TOS.
>
To confirm, AFAIK, the only special filenames recognised by TOS are CON:, AUX:,
PRN:.  Note that these may be upper case or lower case, but not mixed case..

EmuTOS has the same rules.

Roger