con ....

[saadie]

a good frined of mine made a new folder and named it " con " .... guess what hapenned .... it didnt work ... . :? he told me try it .. but it didnt work for me either ....
i search for " con " ... but even the search didnt work .. lol ... funny huh ....

try it and telme if it works for you .... :roll:

[AlienDB7]

In the MSDOS environment (yes, windows is still based on DOS underneath), "con" is a special device for CONsole. It handles input from keyboard and output to screen.

[saadie]

but that shouldnt restrict making a folder named con ... :?
or even searching for it ....

[AlienDB7]

Folder is just a special type of file and you can consider a device as a very special file. Not sure how to explain it :?

[RC45]

con(sole) is a valid output device/destination - in other words con already exists and is known to the system, so as all system components is a reserved name.