Folder ... CON

[MGadAllah]

a very strang thing happened

there no chance to creat any folder and name it CON

try it

lol

I think even MS do not know why

[DL.]

That's old stuff, has already been mentioned in some posts.

Search and you will find more info on the subject...

[jondercik]

you cant do this because it is the name of a device

[MGadAllah]

Thanks

I need to be updated

I will search before posting from now on

lol

[Bader15]

Hi

you can do it Brother mgadallah

see the picture

My Regard . . .

[MGadAllah]

HOW did you did it?

Hi

you can do it Brother mgadallah

see the picture

My Regard . . .

[Ctrl-X]

Let me guess: by adding an ASCII 255 character to the name?

[MGadAllah]

adding an ASCII 255 character to the name?

[jdoe]

adding an ASCII 255 character to the name?

Type con and alt+255 to get characters by their number (not only for ASCII but for UNICODE either)

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Reserved device name

CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9

[gamehead200]

First time I hear about this...

[LLXX]

HOW did you did it?

Hi

you can do it Brother mgadallah

see the picture

My Regard . . .

mspaint.exe?

[jdoe]

First time I hear about this...

Read this...

Naming a File

[jftuga]

"con" is short for console, which under Windows is a device name. "nul" is another device name. "Con" reads input from the keyboard and "nul" can be used to redirect output into nothing or can be used to create a zero length file.

Examples:

C:\> type con > test.txt ( you can also use copy con test.txt )

this

is a

3 line test

^Z (this means press ctrl-Z on a line by itself)

C:\>

now pull up test.txt in notepad and you will see the 3 lines that you typed in.

C:\> dir > nul (notice nothing happens, this is because the output was redirected into nothingness

C:\> type nul > test.txt

C:\ dir test.txt (this creates a file, test.txt, that has a length of zero bytes)

The Alt-255 trick mentioned above is not as cool as it used to be under Windows 98. You could create a folder from the command prompt by typing:

mkdir test<alt-255> which means to type the word test and then hold the alt key and press 255 on the keypad. The cursor would advance one space over to the right. A folder named "abc<alt-255>def" would like "abc def". The Win 98 My Computer program could not navigate into these directories. They were only accessible from the command prompt by using "cd abc<alt-255>def". Windows XP's My Computer as well as the tab-completion feature of the command-prompt have no problem with these folder names.

-John

[MGadAllah]

HOW did you did it?

Hi

you can do it Brother mgadallah

see the picture

My Regard . . .

mspaint.exe?

NO...It did works Alt + 255

thanks

[585Soft]

Also you can try to create folders: COM1, COM2, LPT1, LPT2