Another Undocumented Feature

[nutjob.ie at gmail.com (Pat)]

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 blue screen






On 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.
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