Yes but you can name a folder "CONSOLE" but you can't name one "CON".
Very odd indeed.
Sandi
Alex Davidson wrote:
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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