> An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere > named as "con". > This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At > Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't > answer why this happened! It's because of some old-style device names that used to matter a lot more in the old days under MS-DOS. You can't create a folder called "NUL" either, for the same reason. Explanation here: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/10/22/55388.aspx J