Those names are reserved by DOS for system components. For example AUX is
for your serial port and LPT1 is your first printer. NUL is actually
represents nothing. You could use these in DOS to communicate with hardware
devices; NT maintains this backwards compatibility so you cannot use these
as file names.
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