Re: Cannot create a folder with name "con"
- From: "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 11:19:46 -0700
CON is short for CONsole and consists of the keyboard (input) and the
display (output).
Reserved Names (reserved device names)
[[Do not use the following reserved device names for the name of a file:
CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9,
LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9. Also avoid these
names followed by an extension, for example, NUL.tx7.
Windows NT: CLOCK$ is also a reserved device name. ]]
from...
Naming a File
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/naming_a_file.asp
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:eN2BPxfRGHA.5296@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Aditya Sinha <aditya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Hello All,
Can anyone please help me in creating a folder named "con" on my system.
Upon naming the new folder as "con" it just reverts back to new folder.
Aditya Sinha
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