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Another Undocumented Feature
From: prashant3535 at gmail.com (Prashant Mahajan)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:27:47 +0530
These are reserved words hence cannot be used. Do not use the following reserved device names for the name of a file:
CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9 Also avoid these names followed immediately by an extension; for example, NUL.txt is not recommended.
Quoting the File Names, Paths, and Namespaces<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx>MSDN article. Although u can use cmd to create these folders ... can you store any files or folders in them? On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Michael Douglas <mick at pauldotcom.com>wrote:
Yep it was right up there with the ping of death "goodness". So while security has a long way to go on every OS, it's nice to see that forward progress* is being made. - Mick * Though sometimes it really feels like two steps forward three steps back! ;-P On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Pat<nutjob.ie at gmail.com> wrote:This should be fixed for a while now Anyone remember the CON CON bug from 98/95 if you told a machine to open c:\con\con\anything.fil it would bluescreenOn Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:2009/7/19 Dimitrios Kapsalis <dimitrios at gmail.com>:My XP is completely patched and it created a NULL folder.Just read the article, it is NUL, not NULL. I can't create NUL.On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com>wrote:2009/7/19 Tom Brennan - Personal <jinxpuppy at gmail.com>:right click the windows desktop and create a folder named: CON or PRN or NULL <smirk>NULL works ok in a completely unpatched XP, the other two names are ignored. _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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