On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:14:20PM +0000, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> 2005/11/3, Aggelos <marmango@softhome.net>:
>> An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as
>> "con".
>
> .. nor AUX COM1 COM2 LPT1 LPT2 ...
>
>> This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable...
>
> Nope, it isn't; it's trivial.

Yeah, con is a device, console, like someone else said and is touched on
above.  Back in the day, some of us used it to build small text files,
kinda like"

$ cat > file
ladkfjdklajd
^D

You could:

C:\> copy con autoexec.bat
@echo Stupid DOS tricks!
^Z

And you would have a file called autoexec.bat with what you typed as its
contents.  The ^Z send the EOF that would kick you back to the prompt
and close the file.

>> At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why
>> this happened!
>
> Bollocks.

Once upon a time, you could blue-screen a windows box by clicking on a
link in IE that looked like <a href=con/con>don't click here</a>.  It's
been fixed for a long time, but was still fun to have on your website.

>> Try it out yourself...
>> ;-)

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org