From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 3 04:28:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDEDE16A41F for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 04:28:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cmoffatt@ilanw.com) Received: from smtp.ilanw.com (server001.ilanw.com [67.42.142.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B8DB43D6A for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 04:28:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cmoffatt@ilanw.com) Received: from CMMLAPTOP ([69.252.221.191] RDNS failed) by smtp.ilanw.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 21:25:59 -0700 From: "Moffatt, Chris" To: Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 21:27:47 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Thread-Index: AcXgKs9wDCJHvOLlSM+xJSmW7wHA8wAAgiSwAACByYA= X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Nov 2005 04:25:59.0718 (UTC) FILETIME=[B145B460:01C5E02E] Cc: Subject: RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 04:28:58 -0000 It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like "prn") I think it stands for "console" Actually, you can't create a folder named: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9 -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Aggelos Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 8:31 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !! An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as "con". This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"