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Topic: celebrating 20000 posts
Posted By: zMaestro
Subject: celebrating 20000 posts
Date Posted: 18 October 2007 at 10:54am
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An Indian discovered that nobody can create a folder anywhere on the computer which can be named as "CON".Replies:
Posted By: zMaestro
Date Posted: 18 October 2007 at 10:57am
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Posted By: ctscott
Date Posted: 18 October 2007 at 1:45pm
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both are quiet interesting, thanks. ------------- ______________________ http://www.cfbtrivia.com" rel="nofollow - College Football Trivia |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 18 October 2007 at 2:06pm
The first one I heard about but the 2nd one puzzles me....
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Posted By: javi712
Date 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 By: iSec
Date Posted: 18 October 2007 at 9:24pm
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. ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |