Comments on: Microsoft Windows- Folder/File Name Issues

By: Proinsias d'Heneghean

Proinsias d'Heneghean — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:54:00 +0000

Same for “prn”, “nul”

And the reason for this is simple, you can open Com port as example using CreateFile API as opening a normal files too.
(Ref: http://geekswithblogs.net/aboos/archive/2005/ etc …

But you can do it from DOS:
go to command prompt
c:>md.c:con

Which again you cannot delete from the File Explorer, but from DOS.

By: Arun Vishnu M V (Kannan)

Arun Vishnu M V (Kannan) — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:45:00 +0000

Ya arun, the credits are for blake and u also. And i know the =rand will work with other numbers. I just said 100,50. But why you said Easter eggs are inaccessible to the end user? Most of the softwares easter eggs are available to all. It might be getting from developers, but they all are accessible to the end users.

By: ADTC

ADTC — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:04:00 +0000

i too said what viswaprabha and blake said! where are the credits for blake and me??????

and for the MS-word thing, that is an easter egg (a part of a software that is created by programmers for timepass, and is normally inaccessible to the end user). any number can be used. the format is =rand(rows,columns) Each cell in the "table" of rows and columns will have one instance of the sentence that has all English alphabets.

Try =rand(1,2) and =rand(2,1) and u'll know what i'm talking about.

By: ADTC

ADTC — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:48:00 +0000

blake must be right!

u see in programming languages u find that u can't use some reserved words as variable names. for eg. in C/C++ the keywords like "if", "printf", etc. cannot be used as variable names. Entering statements int if; if=32; will generate an error although they seem right!

It must be similar for the words like aux, con, nul etc. in Windows folder creation.

By: Praveen A

Praveen A — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:53:00 +0000

u cannot create a folder named "aux" and "nul" as well for that matter as well...

blake: That is bull shit !!

There is not such file in the directory in which you are trying to create this file. We can understand if there already is a file named "con". (Are you saying that in every folder there are files with these names ?)

But that is not the case with arunmvishnu. There is already one in blogger but you can get it in livejournal or for that matter in any of such sites.

By: Blake Handler

Blake Handler — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:07:00 +0000

It’s not “magic” — it’s the same reason that I can not get a site on Blogger as “arunmvishnu” — because YOU already took it.

You “must” understand that there are some reserved word. . .