Strange windows magic

[Dark Atheist]

[FONT=&quot]MAGIC #1[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as 'CON'. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn't answer
why this happened!

TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE ' CON ' FOLDER


MAGIC #2


For those of you using Windows, do the following:

1.) Open an empty notepad file

2.) Type 'Bush hid the facts' (without the quotes)

3.) Save it as whatever you want.

4.) Close it, and re-open it.

is it just a really weird bug? :-??


MAGIC #3[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]This is something pretty cool and neat...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened!

It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out yourself...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Open Microsoft Word and type

=rand (200, 99)
And then press ENTER then see the magic...............................[/FONT]


Only 1 and 3 worked for me

 

[ray_gillespie]

Hehe they all worked for me! The second one

Spoiler

turned the words into about 8 weird bars

in case you wanted to know.

The first one clearly wasn't discovered by "an Indian" however, it was well known about by Microsoft who put in intentionally themselves. I can't remember why though

Anyway, cool post man.

 

[Dark Atheist]

i don't see that with the second one though - strange

 

[lancer]

is you capitilise 'Con' it comes out like this 'conr'

 

[Petros]

I got so curious I looked it up. Turns out there's a bunch of other words, too, on folders.

It's not that weird. '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?
Russ Watts confirms the suggestion, giving this 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.

 

[Perris Calderon]

i don't see that with the second one though - strange

it puts the quotes in for you

 

[Perris Calderon]

I don't have word on this box what does that one do?

 

[Dark Atheist]

writes a few pages for you - number 2 doesn't do anything for me - just shows the line it tells you to put in - no quotes or anything