Why can't I create a folder named CON? (And other "Crazy Facts")

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Leo,

Your link to Wikipedia is incorrect. You might have intended http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad

you are right leo , i see these "Microsoft's Crazy Facts" in too much forms and the most thing make me laugh this part "Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened" ,> this is one of the programming rules.

and thank you leo to clarify some of these what people thinks it's magic ..
http://www.fosdir.com/links

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The notepad link's been fixed. It's actually a link to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts

Leo

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"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" does NOT contain every character in the standard English alphabet. It should be "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" which contains the "s".

Creat a new folder then rename it so right click choose Insert Unicode Control Character then Left-to-right mark name it CON , I think that is ok.
thanks.

What about the function you mentioned Leo =lorem() function, i tried it but nothing happed

You can make con. Use at your own discretion:

Try this:

click on Start then Run and type cmd
hit enter

then try the following command

md \\.\c:\con

so it should look like this at the command prompt:

c:\> md \\.\c:\con

to remove:

c:\> rd \\.\c:\con

note: You don't type c:\> - thats just the command prompt
and there is a space between > and md (or rd) and a space between md and \\

http://www.geocities.com/terryhollett2003/

=lorem() only works with Word 2007, not 2003

i made a folder named Con tryin the command prompt ... now i cant delete it... any1 can help me??

"Con" also refers to control Pannel. it's a reserved word. hence can't use it.
(in a notepad try name a file with "Con", you'll get to see it)

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