On 07/06/2011 03:36 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 6/7/2011 7:08, Invisible wrote:
>> OK. So it's called a file allocation table rather than a directory
>> listing. Same difference.
>
> Um, no. These are two entirely different things.

In what way?

>> Why would a security update break a program that only reads and writes
>> text files and accesses the serial port?
>
> Because the serial port is hardware that many programs accessed without
> going through the operating system to do so.

Ah, now *that* I would expect to fail, yes. And, indeed, one of our 
other programs *does* fail on Windows XP because it actually tries to 
overwrite SERIAL.SYS with its own customised version...

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