Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 07:11:25 -0500 From: Jason Stewart <jstewart@rtl.org> To: Aggelos <marmango@softhome.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !! Message-ID: <20051103121125.GH19904@rtl.org> In-Reply-To: <43698488.5040808@softhome.net> References: <43698488.5040808@softhome.net>
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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 funny. Just as it is not funny that you cannot name a variable int int in a C program. Con is a reserved name for the console device in dos. There is no "folder namespace" for device files in dos like there is in *nix with the dev directory. Design oversight? Probably. Funny? No, and I knew about this 10 years ago so it's not true that someone just discovered it. Jason
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