[Lazarus] In the name of science

[Dave Coventry]

Yes, but the 'Bush hid the facts' one is just plain weird.

Not sure why Graeme thinks we all have MS Word, though...

2008/8/26 Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org>:
> 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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