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Old 12-20-2005, 08:16 AM   #1
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Default con ....

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:
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Old 12-20-2005, 08:45 AM   #2
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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.
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Old 12-20-2005, 09:18 AM   #3
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but that shouldnt restrict making a folder named con ...
or even searching for it ....
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Old 12-20-2005, 09:47 AM   #4
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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
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Old 12-20-2005, 09:10 PM   #5
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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.
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