Try to create a folder name “CON” or “con”… and see what is happening if your PC platform are windows.
I saw this article from Yapkevin.com , it mention that we are unable to create folder name CON and i feel curious, I start to googling and look for explanation…at last, i found that still have a lot of word unable to create such as
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9
The reason is those name are reserved for ‘DOS’ device names…
There also some tips and trick to create this kind of folder, just open a MS-DOS
to create type -> md c:\con\
to delete type -> rd c:\con\
The folder are create, and it is unable to rename it, once i rename it, it shows “error renaming file or folder”
I found that when we create any picture such as jpeg or bmp file with CON as the file name, it also shows error, below are the error when i try to save the jpg file as CON
This is just some tips and trick to create the folder name CON and also PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9
Great info Man… i did’n really know those file cannot create
Yet another reason to use linux 🙂
thx for the info sharing…tis is a useful piece of knowledge ;P
Welcome…welcome…but seriously my self also never create this kind of folder before…until i saw kevin mention on it
it’s like programming languages which they have reserved words. Those words are used for special purposes. So i guess its best not to use those folders. or it may cos redundancy in ur OS. Probably in Linux, there will be also reserved words.
Try this:
C:\>attrib -s -h -r -a boot.ini
C:\>copy boot.ini con
Below, is very useful when you don’t have any edit in your system like edit or notepad:
C:\>copy con test1.txt
kljasldkjaskldj lk;daskdka;
kljalsdkjlas
^Z
1 file(s) copied.
the ^Z is actually Ctrl+Z
Some tricks I learned in DOS 6.22. Con is actually console, and in the back of DOS 6.22 manual from MS will have the reserved word list.
your answer is very much perfect i want some special information like this floder name con .
i want another inportant information about computer so from where i will collect it
Nyc Work Bro…