Vivek Achary wrote:
Sure we know about the endless list of M$ bugs but this one takes the cake.
If you're on dual boot or have access to M$, just try to create a folder named
"con" ...
You can't!
I suggest you do your factfinding before calling something a bug. IMHO,
this cant be called a "bug" unless you want to engage in generic
microsoft bashing. Microsoft is sitting on a lot of legacy code. This is
another one of those quirks.
Googled - http://kerneltrap.org/node/5772.
Read the comments.
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The following reserved device names cannot be used as the name of a file:
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7,
COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.
You must avoid using these names as a file name suffix or file name
body, so you have to avoid names such as aux.c, file.aux or NUL.txt.
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And the humourous part, expectedly NO ONE at Microsoft knows why... maybe bcos M$ has a
patent on creating "cons" ?
Huh?
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VaibhaV
http://vsharma.net
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