[thelist] OT - folder named con cannot be created on Windows OS

Jason Handby jasonh at corestar.co.uk
Thu Oct 13 04:23:28 CDT 2005


> 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


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