[coderzone]

An Indian discovered that nobody can create a folder anywhere named as "con"

This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened!

Try it out yourself...

[einfoway]

hi,

This is not the bug men... You can create the folder with any of the system commands,,,,,

and con is the system command and their are many such commands, dont remember now rest of commands will update you when i get it again ..



Regards
Dharmendra AJwani

[pradeep]

Isn't it because it's a DOS device?
It is, "con" is for console, as in the command

copy con filename.ext

Same reason you can't create folders named 'aux', 'lpt1', 'com1', 'prn' or 'nul' either.

[shabbir]

Quote:

Originally Posted by einfoway

hi,

This is not the bug men... You can create the folder with any of the system commands,,,,,

and con is the system command and their are many such commands, dont remember now rest of commands will update you when i get it again ..



Regards
Dharmendra AJwani

Then how can you craete a folder named copy where as copy is also a DOS command. I guess pradeep has a better reason for this.

[SATYAN JANA]

Quote:

Originally Posted by coderzone

An Indian discovered that nobody can create a folder anywhere named as "con"

This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened!

Try it out yourself...

Hmmm,
there are many more cases....
Try out if you can create a folder named "prn"....

You can not create case sensitive folders too. i.e. if there exists a folder named "abc" then at the same level you can not create another folder named ABC or aBc or ABc ...

[shabbir]

Quote:

Originally Posted by SATYAN JANA

You can not create case sensitive folders too. i.e. if there exists a folder named "abc" then at the same level you can not create another folder named ABC or aBc or ABc ...

Thats because Win is not case sensitive but not allowing con, prn ... is not acceptable from my point of view.

[arbaz.it]

nice one

[lead.smart34]

i tried its true

[harish714]

really

[parvez.yu]

ya con is a command,so no folder can have that name