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Geek Culture / Folders called CON

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 15th May 2006 00:56
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I tried to make a folder called CON, short for controller, but it renames it back to what it was before every time I try. I can't make a folder called CON anywhere, in fact, although it lets me make folders called bull**** and the like.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 15th May 2006 00:58
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Ahh - it is an old DOS command. Hmm.

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Tachyon
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Posted: 15th May 2006 15:50 Edited at: 15th May 2006 15:52
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btw, why shouldn't it work becouse its a "dos command". Maybe microsoft is telling lies to us with that "based on NT technology", maybe XP runs still on DOS!

They dont work becouse they are devices to be used for command input and output, like try these:
PRN, LPT1..3, CON, AUX, COM1..4, NUL

dont work too, huh?

EDIT: But Im not sure why is this, maybe this was a way to get bluescreen and this is how M$ fixed it.

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IanM
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Posted: 15th May 2006 22:16
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The reason is compatibility ... people still write batch scripts, they still run DOS-based applications, and XP needs to be able to cope with that, and not for example fill the disk up when someone directs to NUL or prints to PRN

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DARKGuy
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CON was used sometimes to crash old Win98's machines and yeah, it's some old DOS command... think about it like reserved words for the OS, like the examples Tachyon told you


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