Can't name a folder "con" in xp

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Elmo187

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Does anyone know why you can't give a folder the name con in xp(maybe other OS's as well)? If you try, it just changes it back to the original name.
 
'con' is a reserved word that stands for "console". Same reason you can't name a folder lpt1. Con is a valid place to redirect data to, so if you had a folder named con, the OS couldn't figure out if you were trying to move data to it or the console display.
 
Back In The Day, when using MS-DOS, I'd write short text files and batch files by saying "copy con somefile.txt"

edit : I wonder what kind of trouble you'd have if you made the dir using a non-MS OS like Linux...
 
ameoba said:
Back In The Day, when using MS-DOS, I'd write short text files and batch files by saying "copy con somefile.txt"

edit : I wonder what kind of trouble you'd have if you made the dir using a non-MS OS like Linux...
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You just gave me warm fuzzies about edlin and F6.
 
/flashbacks to time of writing batch startup scripts to configure memory for XMS or EMS based on what games i wanted to play
 
PTNL said:
/flashbacks to time of writing batch startup scripts to configure memory for XMS or EMS based on what games i wanted to play
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AHHHHH not EMM386!!!!! I still have nightmares! :p
 
PTNL said:
/flashbacks to time of writing batch startup scripts to configure memory for XMS or EMS based on what games i wanted to play
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Heh, I may still have my .bat files for doom and wing commander. :) Oh, and let's not forget xcom.

Ah, those were the days. They really knew how to make games back then, I'll tell you.

I had to bring down my bbs to play games, so needless to say I missed the first half of my day in class quite often. :)
 
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