Hi all,
I suspect you can still do something like copy conn test.txt
In dos 6 this would bring up some kind of text editor that would let you enter text. You would press ctrl+z to save the file.
Pranav on Friday 4/29/2005 09:58 PM, Huntress said: 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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