2026-10-06 05:34 UTC
Okay. Now go to File Explorer and right click to create a new text file and try to name it “con”. That’s three letters: con. You can’t do it. Not allowed. Because CON has been reserved (in every directory on every drive) for piping to and from console since MS-DOS 2 or so. (I think 2 is when they stole pipes from Unix)
Okay. Now, open just about any kind of desktop window and double click in its upper left corner. In > 9 windows out of 10 that action still closes the window even though the “close window” button was moved to the upper right corner by Windows 3. Even though a bunch of modern applications don’t even have any icon there at all any more.
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@hayvan@piefed.world 2026-10-06 06:12
Other DOS reserved names include PRN, LPT1, LPT2… copy file.txt prn was an interesting shortcut for printing things 35 years ago.
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@Strider@lemmy.world 2026-10-06 06:36
What if I create the file con in wsl, will it also not be allowed?