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zMaestro 
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Posted: 18 October 2007 at 10:54am |
 An Indian discovered that nobody can create a folder anywhere on the computer which can be named as "CON". |
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zMaestro
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Posted: 18 October 2007 at 10:57am |
For those of you using Windows, do the following:
1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.
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Posted: 18 October 2007 at 1:45pm |
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both are quiet interesting, thanks.
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Posted: 18 October 2007 at 2:06pm |
The first one I heard about but the 2nd one puzzles me....
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Posted: 18 October 2007 at 5:53pm |
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It appears to be just another microsoft bug. A sequence of character strings in a pattern will prompt that to happen. The pattern is 4 letters, 3 letters, 3 letters and 5 letters. You can even do something like "aaaa aaa aaa aaaaa" and that will also cause the same result.
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Posted: 18 October 2007 at 9:24pm |
zMaestro wrote:
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a folder anywhere on the computer which can be named as "CON". |
If you are interested in knowing why, I'm fairly certain CON is reserved, similar to how in Linux/Unix CON is mapped to /dev/tty.
Other reservations are: AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL
There may me more, not sure.
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