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Silly Microsoft stuff...

Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by Geri, 2008/03/17.

  1. 2008/03/17
    Geri Lifetime Subscription

    Geri Inactive Alumni Thread Starter

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    An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as "CON ".

    Right click on your desktop and click new > Folder, name it CON then click anywhere on your desktop.
    Then you can delete it !


    For those of you using Windows, do the following:
    1) Open an empty notepad file
    2) Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)
    3) Save it as whatever you want.. test or what ever and save it to your Desktop.
    4) Close it, and re-open it.
     
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  2. 2008/03/18
    Arie

    Arie Administrator Administrator Staff

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    Which is completely normal. CON is (one of the) reserved word(s) dating back to DOS. Its reserved for use by the operating system and cannot be used as a file or directory name in DOS or Windows. You'll have to pick another name.

    Now you can create it from the command prompt:

    md \\.\c:\con

    It aslo can only be deleted from the command prompt:

    rd \\.\c:\con

    Some of the other reserved words are AUX, PRN, COMx, LPTx, NUL
    These are device names which are reserved words in windows.
     
    Arie,
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  4. 2008/03/18
    markp62

    markp62 Geek Member Alumni

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    CON refers to input from the keyboard. I have used it in a dos command to create a Config.Sys file when Edlin was not available. This method isn't great for editing an existing file.
     
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  5. 2008/03/18
    noahdfear

    noahdfear Inactive

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    A bit more reference to the con folder and 'bush hid the facts' here.
     
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