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:
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>
>>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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