Comments on: You Can’t Con Windows!

By: Yohan Liyanage

Yohan Liyanage — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:10:48 +0000

Hi.
These stuff happens because those are reserved keywords of the Operating System. For example, “con” stands for console. aux is for auxiliary, lpt1 for local printer port 1, com1 for Communications Port 1, Nul for Null and so on. You are not allowed to create files or folders using these names.

It is commonly used in DOS to redirect output such as “copy con”.

Regards.
Yohan.

By: H.M.

H.M. — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:25:56 +0000

Hi
Let me re write the list as:
con,aux,com0..com9,lpt0..lpt9,prn nul

hm.webmaster@gmail.com

By: Jakub Koźniewski

Jakub Koźniewski — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:12:10 +0000

Here is full (I hope so) list o restricted Windows names:
CON, AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL

By: Jakub Koźniewski

Jakub Koźniewski — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:04:55 +0000

Hi…

I’ve also googled on this topic and I’ve found that
there is the same issue with “nul” filename…

crazy…

By: David Harris

David Harris — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:10:10 +0000

That on drove me crazey too
I thought it was move a leave over from DOS days, where con was short for console….