[Lazarus] In the name of science

[Florian Klaempfl]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> On 8/26/08, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I expected something like that, but would the same then apply to
> something like STDOUT?  Yet I can create a file named STDOUT
> 
> 
> I still can't find a logical reason for (2).

It's a bug in notepad which guesses the encoding wrong. I saw once an 
explaination ... wait ... wikipedia knows it 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts