find first magic attributes

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From: Eric Gisin
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 1990 01:18

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When you do a find first on a device like nul or con,
the attribute byte is 0x40. This is undocumented.
It is not in the interrupt list either.
Is this portable? It works on DOS 3.3 and DOS 4.0.
Is an attribute of 0x80 possible?

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Subject: find first magic attributes
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 90 01:18:34 GMT
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