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Comment from Muhammad Arif Shahid on 2011-08-27

2011-08-27T07:13:30Z

Not only "CON" but you also can't create folder named "PRN" and "NUL".

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Comment from dave on 2011-07-01

2011-07-01T19:46:58Z

I'm disappointed with you for the first time ever. The 3 magic things you mentioned are bogus. I tried all three and all went like normal. No surprises, or hints of something unusual except for the fact that you messed up. Tsk, tsk, ha, ha.

Sorry to disappoint. All three were absolutely true (caveat the explanations above, of course) in many versions of Windows.

01-Jul-2011

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Comment from Steve Pratt on 2011-06-29

2011-06-29T19:26:42Z

Leo is trying so hard to deny these things, it makes me wonder if Leo isn't in on the conspiracy :-)

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Comment from sirpaul2 on 2011-06-28

2011-06-28T19:20:37Z

"Bush hid the facts" is a bug but it can be triggered by almost any sentence that follows a particular pattern:
1) First word with an even number of letters (2 or more)
2) All other words with odd number of letters (3 or more).
(Does not seem to work if the last letter of each word is the same.)
Has something to do with the encoding of 'Unicode'.
Notepad before Win2000 didn't support Unicode, so the 'magic' doesn't work on Win95-ME (unless you've replaced Notepad with a later one).
Also, if you save it as Unicode instead of ANSI (Win2000 on), there is no 'magic'. WYSIWYG!

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Comment from Alex on 2011-06-28

2011-06-28T16:22:39Z

Thanks for the urban legends - I loved the lorem function and rand. Sadly "Bush" did nothing - which kinds seems right.

More legends Leo please!

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Comment from Orkhan Ahmadov on 2010-04-22

2010-04-22T15:42:38Z

There's the answer why anyone can create folder named "con":
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_can't_you_create_a_folder_named_CON_in_Windows_or_MS-DOS

Looks like exactly what I said in the article you just commented on. Your point?

23-Apr-2010

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Comment from aruN on 2010-02-22

2010-02-22T08:24:16Z

but guys,,,,, I can create the foldr named con

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Comment from Razee Marikar on 2009-04-03

2009-04-03T19:20:57Z

There are also other filenames which cannot be used, like NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, ... COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, ... LPT9. These files are reserved to be used as devices. CON is the console device. NUL is the null device (accepts anything like a black hole, but doesn't save anything). COM1 through 9 stand for the communication ports (the serial ports). LPT1 through 9 stand for printer ports (or parallel ports). Like copy con file.txt, you can also do copy file.txt con .

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Comment from Samudrala Prasad on 2009-02-23

2009-02-24T01:36:12Z

Hello All,

there is a reason why CON cannot be used for creating a folder of file in windows of command prompt.

Reason is while developing DOS, those programmers made a logic programming. they selected a word for describing a command which creates a file, called " copy con ".

they wrote programming as it cannot be used by any other command.

As DOS is the base for all the operating systems we have today, it cannot be changed. If they try to change them they have to modify all the operating systems in world; which is not possible.

So Bill Gates described it as a BUG in Microsoft Products.

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Comment from Paul on 2008-09-24

2008-09-25T05:35:59Z

"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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Comment from Eug999 on 2008-07-27

2008-07-27T17:26:41Z

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

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Comment from Tim Glover on 2008-07-09

2008-07-09T17:55:07Z

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

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Comment from Terry Hollett on 2008-07-09

2008-07-09T12:46:20Z

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 \\

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Comment from Ebrahim Alashiri on 2008-07-08

2008-07-09T06:32:53Z

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

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Comment from Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed on 2008-07-08

2008-07-08T15:40:48Z

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.

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Comment from Frankie on 2008-07-07

2008-07-07T14:58:52Z

"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".

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Comment from Leo on 2008-07-05

2008-07-05T17:43:04Z

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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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Comment from peter on 2008-07-04

2008-07-04T12:12:20Z

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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Comment from John Hileman on 2008-07-03

2008-07-03T23:18:12Z

Leo,

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

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