My Friend Found a Glitch In XP!!!

[Kush]

Hey guys my friend Tristan (polarbear_ak) found a weird ass bug in windows xp i tried it and got the same results so i bet all of you will to, we should submit this to microsoft.

Make a new folder anywhere you want, then Try renaming the folder to "Con" (i even tried lowercase still) without the quotes and it will change back to what it was previously.

Strange huh? :smoker:

 

[Kush]

nevermind its been known but why i dont like it! lol

 

[polarbear_ak]

I found the answer to the reason why you can not name a folder "con" in windows. says it is due to Dos 1.0

http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/raymondc/permalink.aspx/1f7e4f66-2889-4238-8962-37899528e211


http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/d0m1/archive/2003/10/22/2786.aspx

Polar

 

[ming]

not a glitch after all..
just damn strange.

 

[ming]

I found the answer to the reason why you can not name a folder "con" in windows. says it is due to Dos 1.0

http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/raymondc/permalink.aspx/1f7e4f66-2889-4238-8962-37899528e211


http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/d0m1/archive/2003/10/22/2786.aspx

Polar

What has XP got to do with DOS1.0 though? I thought they said that they got rid of all the DOS related crap when they released XP. :dead:

 

[NetRyder]

http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/raymondc/permalink.aspx/1f7e4f66-2889-4238-8962-37899528e211

That's exactly where I first read about it.

 

[rushm001]

What has XP got to do with DOS1.0 though? I thought they said that they got rid of all the DOS related crap when they released XP. :dead:

Probably low level HD calls.

 

[Mastershakes]

That's cool. I know no one is really looking for a fix to this....

The workaround would be to name ze folder c0n

 

[American Zombie]

What has XP got to do with DOS1.0 though? I thought they said that they got rid of all the DOS related crap when they released XP.

Maybe cause of the Windows 95, 98 and ME compatibility modes.

 

[ming]

Maybe cause of the Windows 95, 98 and ME compatibility modes.

Argh.. never thought of that.

 

[Mastershakes]

I think Polarbear wins - here's the lowdown.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_rbrx.asp

 

[Eagle710]

cool ...thats funny

 

[gonaads]

Wonder if x64 has this oddity?

 

[polarbear_ak]

The idea behind it is

aux, nul, prn, also not allowed
con, aux and prn stand for 'console', 'auxiliary' and 'printer' and stand for output devices.

Leftovers from DOS where you could do 'copy con a.txt' and get whatever you typed in a textfile.
Or 'copy a.txt prn' to send it to the first printer (if installed).

Actually, those still work (at least con does) from a Windows command prompt to this day.

I though my computer was freaking out because I was trying to name it con and it was unable to so I was like WTF....
Polar

 

[FishBoy]

...(i even tried lowercase still)...

windows is not case sensitive on file names so it doesn't matter which case it's done in