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But even so, why hasn't Win32 supported \dev\con since forever? Then programs could use that and the old stupid way could be phased out.


You'd have to modify and recompile the old programs, which may not be possible.


No you don't. Run them in compatibility mode. You often need to do that anyway. A _lot_ changed between PC-DOS 1 and Windows 10. It's ridiculous that this didn't.


Compatibility mode applies to processes, though, which raises a problem with batch files (or scripts) that use those things, as you'd then have to make cmd always run in compatibility mode (or Python, or Perl, etc.).


I don't think Python and Perl existed back then. You do have a point with batch files. Well, maybe some sort of compatibility mode should exist for them too.




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