I believe it's because CON is short for CONSOLE i.e. the screen
On 4/29/05, Bernie Cosell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I discovered an odd thing this morning: on XP/Pro it is apparently not
> permitted to call a directory or file "con". It doesn't complain or give
> you any sort of error, it just doesn't work. [actually, it is a bit more
> amusing than that: I was unzipping a .zip file that had a bunch of stuff
> stored in a 'con' directory... and that really hosed the unzip-wizard..]
>
> Why is that a forbidden file name? And are there other secret forbidden
> file names?
>
> /Bernie\
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