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On 2013.05.07 20:28, Neil Hodgson wrote:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/74496
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nul_%28band%29
I can indeed confirm that at least 'nul' cannot be used as a filename. However, I add an extension to the file names to identify them as caches.

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