care to elaborate on what i am looking at.
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11/20/09 04:25 | makingmusic476 | Warning | Other (Your avatar is borderline NSFW. Please keep it for as long as possible.) |
psrock said: care to elaborate on what i am looking at. |
two bugs in the Windows OS
The CON thing has been explained multiple times already. It's been there as far as I can remember (95).
Con (case insensitive) is the name of the console device. That's not an Easter egg, nor a bug, it's by design. The error is a bit ambiguous though. Windows is trying to prevent you from creating a directory with the same name as a reserved word for a device. I don't run Windows Vista, but you should get the same error if you try to call a new directory "prn" (printer on LPT1).
You can use devices in a command prompt or MS-DOS window to redirect input/output to various different things as though they were files. For instance:
C:\>copy con myfile.txt
will create a new file or overwrite an existing one with what you type on-screen. (CTRL+Z terminates, by the way). And the command:
C:\>type myfile.txt > prn
Will print it.
The other "Easter egg" isn't even part of Windows.
Wasn't there something in Word that would type out "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps over the Lazy Dog" a number of times also?
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