OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-02 Thread Aggelos
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as "con". This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself... ___ freebsd-que

Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-02 Thread Antony Mawer
On 3/11/2005 2:31 PM, Aggelos wrote: An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as "con". This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! I find it hard no one at Microsoft could a

RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-02 Thread Moffatt, Chris
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aggelos Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 8:31 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !! An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as "

Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-02 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/3/05, Aggelos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as > "con". > This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... > At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why > this happened! > Try it out yourself... >

RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-02 Thread Moffatt, Chris
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aggelos Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 8:31 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !! An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as "

RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-02 Thread Haulmark, Chris
> > An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as > "con". > This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... > At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why > this happened! > Try it out yourself... It's confirmed that it is correct on Windows

RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-02 Thread Haulmark, Chris
> > > > > An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as > > "con". > > This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... > > At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why > > this happened! > > Try it out yourself... > > It's confirmed that it is

Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-02 Thread Doug Hardie
tions@freebsd.org Subject: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !! An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as "con". This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't ans

RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
los >Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 7:31 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !! > > >An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as >"con". >This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... &

Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-03 Thread Jason Stewart
On 03/11/05 05:31 +0200, Aggelos wrote: > An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as > "con". > This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... > At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why > this happened! > Try it out yourself... Not fun

Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-03 Thread RW
On Thursday 03 November 2005 04:27, Moffatt, Chris wrote: > It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like "prn") Now that is funny - prn is where the texting generation will expect to store their porn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, November 02, 2005 21:17:27 -0700 "Moffatt, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like "prn") I think it stands for "console" Actually, you can't create a folder named: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7,