windows can't creat folder named "con"

ermmm..
i just guest the "con" is variable for the operating system
maybe wrong understanding..

yes..um well whatever way you look at it, all those names i told you about earlier, are reserved. a user cannot name anything on their system using those names. this is to protect certain system integrity as the system itself uses those names to access or manipulate variables, or data for its own use.

actually con, and all the other words mentioned are all reserved DOS reserved words. but if you really want to make a con folder try this one out using the command prompt:
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##to create the con folder
C:\mkdir \\.\c:\con

##to delete this directory

C:\rd /S /Q \\.\c:\con

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hope this helps

jhun..nice info

can you explain how the command work?

actually it is like tricking the OS. back in the early days when someone tries to create a "con" folder using the code it would crash their system since the word used is a reserved DOS word. if you would look at the code carefully you would see that it is like creating a folder across a network but actually reverts back to the root drive of the local machine. the "\\." is like a UNC path to the local machine which probably somehow allows the user to create folders with reserved DOS parameters as names.

Nice Info JHun !!

i was able to make a folder named con on the c:\

but if u try to change into the folder from dosprompt it simply says "The system cannot find the path specified". Was able to browse the folder from windows explorer, but not able to copy anything into it it says "Access is deined ! Disk is full or write protected" cant even delete from windows unless used the dos command sent by u.

anyways great piece of info

Cheers