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Three things that even Microsoft can't explain!!
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You're right brother !
sri_lion said:Its not that Microsoft can't explain.. they WONT explain!!
How can they not explain?they are the ones who coded it!!
It could be few possibilities why Microsoft is unable to answer
1. Microsoft internal policies
2. Like an Artist put signature on the Art, some programmers also do crazy things while developing...... to sort of put a unique signature into it.
3. It could also be for the ease of testing purposes of some functions... to check some things actually work in the final product (People accidentally bump into them)
4. Normally the ones that attend to these kind of Q&A sessions has very limited knowledge of actual programming procedures and they'd certainly would not know what programmers actual coding! ALL THOSE MARKETING FELLAS!!
5. else IT'S NOT MICROSOFT'S PROGRAM AT ALL!!
these are ones that I can think of!
I heard about this matter about 10 years ago.
This is DAMN old news
'con' is a reserved word from the old DOS days, simply meaning 'console'. If you wanted to create a new text file in DOS you could type 'copy con newfile.txt' meaning copy from the console to newfile.txt. This would let you type some lines and when you ended the file with ^Z (DOSish for 'end of file') you would have a file called newfile.txt containing whatever you wrote in the console. This is indeed still possible in the Windows XP console, and can you see what mess it would cause if you let files or folders have the name 'con'? What would 'copy con newfile.txt' then mean? BSOD?
this is a list of other DOS devices that can't be used as folder names:
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.
This is DAMN old news
'con' is a reserved word from the old DOS days, simply meaning 'console'. If you wanted to create a new text file in DOS you could type 'copy con newfile.txt' meaning copy from the console to newfile.txt. This would let you type some lines and when you ended the file with ^Z (DOSish for 'end of file') you would have a file called newfile.txt containing whatever you wrote in the console. This is indeed still possible in the Windows XP console, and can you see what mess it would cause if you let files or folders have the name 'con'? What would 'copy con newfile.txt' then mean? BSOD?
this is a list of other DOS devices that can't be used as folder names:
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.
Well well well... People don't go through the whole thread before replying it seems...x-pert said:Maybe an Indian found it by coincidence. But we, Sri Lankans have the explanation....
Exp 01.
You can rename folders as "con"
Try this: md \\.\c:\con
Exp02.
Yes, you can't create a folder called CON. Because Con = console (A reserved word in the Windows OS. The same as the phenomena of disallowing to create a variable called int in many programming languages.
In Exp 01, it actually creates a folder called <space>con.
to delete a con folder: rd \\.\c:\con
Not only con, but you have many reserved words like: CON, AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL
Source: Microsoft
Its nothing to do with Bush. It has something to do with a sentence with a character string of 4, 3, 3, 5 characters. Try "Bill fed the goats"
And it's a bug in ANSI coding standard.
Sources: wiki & hoaxslayer.
This is an inbuilt macro function to check the characters. In fact, the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contain all the letters in the alphabet.
(200, 99) means the number of paragraphs and the number of sentences respectively.
Source : me
sri_lion said:Its not that Microsoft can't explain.. they WONT explain!!
How can they not explain?
It could be few possibilities why Microsoft is unable to answer
1. Microsoft internal policies
2. Like an Artist put signature on the Art, some programmers also do crazy things while developing...... to sort of put a unique signature into it.
3. It could also be for the ease of testing purposes of some functions... to check some things actually work in the final product (People accidentally bump into them)
4. Normally the ones that attend to these kind of Q&A sessions has very limited knowledge of actual programming procedures and they'd certainly would not know what programmers actual coding! ALL THOSE MARKETING FELLAS!!
5. else IT'S NOT MICROSOFT'S PROGRAM AT ALL!!
these are ones that I can think of!
THANX DEAR.................
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