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| Thread ID: 69120 | 2006-05-22 19:19:00 | Renaming a file to 'con.pdf' is not allowed in XP/2000 | DerekM (10438) | Press F1 |
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| 456934 | 2006-05-22 19:19:00 | I have had to try and rename a pdf to con.pdf (using XP) and get a system error saying 'a file with a name you specified already exists'. I tried to recreate this on a Windows 2000 SP4 and got the following 'cannot create or replace file: The name you specified is invalid or too long' Any ideas as to why this filename is not allowed by Windows? I tried renaming the same file on an OSX Mac and there was no problem, leading me to think Microsoft has an issue with the word con? |
DerekM (10438) | ||
| 456935 | 2006-05-22 21:01:00 | I tried this too, even con.doc didn't go through. :confused: :badpc: | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 456936 | 2006-05-22 21:17:00 | How interesting. I tried it too with both a .pdf and a .doc. I didn't get any messages, it just instantly reverted to the original filename. Apparently this is because: "prn" and "con", which identify printer and keyboard, can't be used. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 456937 | 2006-05-22 21:26:00 | "con" is a system reserved name. You cannot use it for anything. It is a hangover from DOS days and was short for Console. There are quite a few of these words still in the windows system (and other systems as well). | andy (473) | ||
| 456938 | 2006-05-23 00:07:00 | how about using con_.pdf | quarry (252) | ||
| 456939 | 2006-05-23 00:15:00 | Hi Derek... been raised a few times on various sites. Try Google on "Windows con" for discussions, such as here kerneltrap.org | Scouse (83) | ||
| 456940 | 2006-05-23 00:59:00 | Reminds me of when I was in 3rd form - all the computers were running windows 95 & connecting to a nt4 server using terminal server. We could create shortcuts to C:\con\con from NT, and when a windows 95 machine saw the shortcut, it would try to follow it to determine if it was valid. For those that don't see the significance of that, whenever a windows 9x box tried to read from \con\con it bluescreens :D When they got their first win2k machines, we enabled the force bluescreen key sequence. I had too much time on my hands during the computing classes. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 456941 | 2006-05-23 02:21:00 | what is the point of the manual bluescreen shortcut??? I enabled it on my xp with x-teq for a laugh but couldn't see any other reason for it... | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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