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pokemo [PersonRank 10]

Monday, May 22, 2006
18 years ago2,400 views

Someone discovered that nobody could create a folder anywhere named as "con" in the Windows Operating System.

Try for yourself if you don't believe.....

iZeitgeist [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

OMG, the world is coming to an end :p

Actually you can't create a folder with any of those names:

CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2 .. COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2 .. LPT8, LPT9, CLOCK$, etc...

With a little hack you can still do it:

c:>md \.c:THEPATHcon

http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/7479/con9lr.jpg

iZeitgeist [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

You know Philipp stips away those slashs

Just added extra slashs:

c:\>md \.\c:\THEPATH\con

iZeitgeist [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

...add an extra slash after "md "

pokemo [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Thanks...:) it works....

/pd [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

hehehe...good old DOS hacks! :)-

Kirby Witmer [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Why in the world wouldn't they you do that??

iZeitgeist [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

I know they are reserved names. But why ?? Only Gates knows.

More on this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/naming_a_file.asp

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