Thad:
Yep. Back in the DOS days.
There are two more reserved words.
James McKenzie
L-3 GSI
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Isn't con the output stream for the "con"sole in DOS. Similar to stdout in *nix?
From a DOS prompt:
echo xxx > con
puts xxx on the screen anyway.
Thad
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I'm almost positive I know the 'real reason' to this, a friend of mine who is not really from an IT background sent me a mail saying that even engineers at Microsoft do not know the answer to this (which I find hard to believe). Reason being after he sent me that mail I immediatly guessed the reason behind this, and I am willing to bet I am right about it..
Wanted to see if anyone here can figure it out... Try this out..
Try creating a directory or a file (with no extension) named con and it wont let you.. while creating a directory using the GUI it simply wont let you create it (no error displayed) but if you try using DOS it will return an error - invalid name.. Similary if you create a file and try to name it con, it says this name is 'reserved for a device'..
Personally I do not think this is reserved for a device as such. It is reserved for 'something else'. At least thats my guess...
Does anyone know why you cant name a file or directory named con? I have a good guess and am willing to bet I'm right... Just want to compare my guess to that of others around here...
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Joe D'Souza
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