[Lazarus] In the name of science

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Tue Aug 26 15:11:54 CEST 2008


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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