[Lazarus] In the name of science

Gerald Pöttler feihtthief at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 15:49:55 CEST 2008


CON stands for console.

Back in the DOS days you could create a text file really quickly by going

copy con bla.txt

Then you typed your text and when you were done type ctrl-z and enter.
Still works in Vista if you open a command prompt :)

feihtthief at gmail.com

* Demo coders use "copy con demo.exe"
* REAL demo coders use "copy con demo.zip"

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Florian Klaempfl
<florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
> Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
>> Off-topic but very cool... actually weird!  :-)
>>
>>
>> TRICK #1
>> 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. ..
>> At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn't answer why this
>> happened!
>
> This is probably an urban legend that nobody can answer this: CON is a
> reserved device name (console, try echo asdf > CON) like e.g. COM1. You
> can't create a folder called COM1 either if you're system has COM1.
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