Guest vasanth Posted September 5, 2007 Posted September 5, 2007 tried to create a folder in Windows XP but unable to do that. Whats the reason behind that
Guest FrankChin Posted September 5, 2007 Posted September 5, 2007 RE: unable to create folder with name "con" Believe you can't name a folder with the same name as a port on the computer, including: CON, LPT1, COM1 (2,3,4), AUX etc. for certain commands, the OS may be confused with outputting to a folder vs to a port. CON is for "console". "vasanth" wrote: > tried to create a folder in Windows XP but unable to do that. Whats the > reason behind that
Guest vasanth Posted September 5, 2007 Posted September 5, 2007 RE: unable to create folder with name "con" Thanks Frank. "FrankChin" wrote: > Believe you can't name a folder with the same name as a port on the computer, > including: > > CON, LPT1, COM1 (2,3,4), AUX etc. > > for certain commands, the OS may be confused with outputting to a folder vs > to a port. > > CON is for "console". > > "vasanth" wrote: > > > tried to create a folder in Windows XP but unable to do that. Whats the > > reason behind that
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted September 5, 2007 Posted September 5, 2007 Re: unable to create folder with name "con" On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 03:58:01 -0700, vasanth <vasanth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > tried to create a folder in Windows XP but unable to do that. Whats the > reason behind that Since the earliest days of DOS, "con" has been a reserved word (it stands for "console") and is unavailable for naming anything. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest db ´¯`·.. > Posted September 5, 2007 Posted September 5, 2007 Re: unable to create folder with name "con" you could press alt+255 after you type the last letter in con then enter to apply the change -- db ·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·..><)))º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><)))º>¸. ><)))º>·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·.. ><)))º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><)))º> .. "vasanth" <vasanth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8A1BB112-8094-434F-8668-B77144A37B89@microsoft.com... > tried to create a folder in Windows XP but unable to do that. Whats the > reason behind that
Guest Bert Hyman Posted September 5, 2007 Posted September 5, 2007 RE: unable to create folder with name "con" FrankChin@discussions.microsoft.com (=?Utf-8?B?RnJhbmtDaGlu?=) wrote in news:AEFEF5A0-D3E1-4EAA-89F3-98916362CBF8@microsoft.com: > Believe you can't name a folder with the same name as a port on the > computer, including: > > CON, LPT1, COM1 (2,3,4), AUX etc. > > for certain commands, the OS may be confused with outputting to a > folder vs to a port. > > CON is for "console". Yes; from the command line, try >copy somefile.txt CON Still, you can create a directory by that name like this: >mkdir c:\con\ >rmdir c:\con\ .... etc. You need the trailing "\". Don't know what happens when you try to use it though. > > "vasanth" wrote: > >> tried to create a folder in Windows XP but unable to do that. >> Whats the reason behind that > -- Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | bert@iphouse.com
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