Friday, February 3, 2006

Can you create folders with these names?

Can you create folders in your Windows environment with these names:
  • Aux
  • Con
  • Nul

Do you why? May be 'reserved words'?!!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Of course reserved! as well as com1, com2, prn, etc.
Do you ever seen MS DOS and 286/386/486 PC?

Anonymous said...

We can create a folder with name Aux
Con
Nul


I have created a folder in D: with name con using dos- mkdir \\.\d:\con, but the folder is not accessible & cannot be deleted by delete/shift+delete key.

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