An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer, Which can be named as “CON� This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable.
At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn't answer why this was happened! As so, inform about this to all your friends. TRY IT NOW; IT WILL NOT CREATE “CON†FOLDER. Try To rename the New Folder as CON or con it will not accept...
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This isn't exactly new news, been around the web for quite a while now. |
I don't want to be a fanboy....but I can make a folder named con simply....in Linux. |
This is for historical reasons (from the DOS era): http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/naming_a_file.asp
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Ionut Alex. Chitu, thanks for clearing that up.
I was going to ask if anyone has seen that new hamsterdance site yet but thought I'd wait to cash my check from Bill Gates for sending emails. |
Just adding to Ionut's link, CON is the DOS reserved name for 'console'. If you go to the command prompt you can type things like:
'copy con testfile.txt' (copy from console to testfile.txt)
Then anything you type will get outputted to testfile.txt when you exit the console mode by pressing ctrl+z.
Back 'in the days before time began' that's how we created simple text files... |
I remember that 'edit' also worked very well. |
In fact, if people don't know these facts related to reserved names they are not real geeks... ;-) ;-) |