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posted on 28 Jun 2008 15:10:15 IST

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An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER

anywhere on the computer which can be named as "CON".

This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable. ..

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#2

For those of you using Windows, do the following:

1.) Open an empty notepad file

2.) Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)

3.) Save it as whatever you want.

4.) Close it, and re-open it.

is it just a really weird bug? Confused?

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#3

This is something pretty cool and neat...and

unbelievable. .. Try it out

Open Microsoft Word and type

=rand (200, 99)

(note or any other number)

And then press ENTER..WHOA...!!!!!!

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comment by astatine19 (posted on 28 Jun 2008 15:29:23 IST)

#1
Con (which stands for console) is one of several reserved system names that
cannot be used in naming folders or files.
Try it. Create a new folder and name it CON (upper or lower case). You will
see that you cannot. The folder
name will keep going back to "New Folder"
Other words that cannot be used for folder or file names are:
AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL

These reserved system names go all the way back to the early days of Dos where
con was used
for file operations such as copying. ie copy con c:\myfolder\myfile.txt
d:\back\myfile.txt
A conflict would occur if the folder or file was also named con.

See here for more info
http://snipurl.com/j02p

But don't ever let anyone tell you it's IMPOSSIBLE.

Secret

There actually is a way to create a folder named con or wth any other reserved
named, but it
would be quite a useless folder..

For convenience, I'll demonstrate with a bat file that when double clicked will
create a folder named con in your c: drive.

Open up a new notepad document and enter this command:
md \\.\c:\con

Save the file with a .BAT extension.
That's it. Double click it and voila!
A folder named con will be produced.

Now try copying or moving something into it. You won't be able to. You'll get
an "access denied" message.
You'll soon realize you don't want this folder anymore and you'll try to delete
it, only to find, that it won't delete.
You'll get a "cannot find specified file" error message.

But don't worry. We can delete it easily with another similarly syntaxed
command.
This time, make a bat file with this command:
rd \\.\c:\con

Double clicking it will delete the folder in a flash.

comment by astatine19 (posted on 28 Jun 2008 15:30:38 IST)

#2
works fine with me! im using windows vista

comment by astatine19 (posted on 28 Jun 2008 15:32:09 IST)

#3
this aint a bug. Its actually a feature of microsoft word to fill in the page with random junk. The number is the number of sentences and paras u want, and the rand word means random which is exactly wat it does - fill the document with random stuff

comment by rudra.panda (posted on 28 Jun 2008 17:04:25 IST)

#2 it is in the format 4-3-3-5. Try anything like that and you will get the same result.

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