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crampp

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Mar 20, 2001
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Why won't windows let me create a folder named "CON" ???

I get an error message "Cannot create or replace file: The filename you specified is invalid or too long. specify a different file name"

Can anyone help?

Regards

Crampy
 
CON is a reserved keyword which stands for Console. For example, you can issue a command "Copy Con newfile.txt" which will copy any additional lines you type to the console into a file called newfile.txt.

When you try to create a folder called CON, NT interprets it as the console, for which you can't create a folder.

Hope this helps...:) Bill
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