Cool Computer Magic Tricks

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Re: Cool Computer Magic Tricks

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MAGIC #1
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON”. This is something pretty cool…and unbelievable… At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn’t answer why this happened!
TRY IT NOW, IT WILL NOT CREATE " CON " FOLDER

It’s not magic.

‘con’ is a reserved word from the old DOS days, simply meaning ‘console’. If you wanted to create a new text file in DOS you could type ‘copy con newfile.txt’ meaning copy from the console to newfile.txt. This would let you type some lines and when you ended the file with ^Z (DOSish for ‘end of file’) you would have a file called newfile.txt containing whatever you wrote in the console. This is indeed still possible in the Windows XP console, and can you see what mess it would cause if you let files or folders have the name ‘con’? What would ‘copy con newfile.txt’ then mean?

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27053

This only seems like magic to you kids who never had to use DOS to run your computers back in the 80s and early 90s.

Honestly… kids these days are just so clueless about text-based operating systems that it seems like MAGIC to them! .

We were smarter back in my days.