WHY CAN'T CON FOLDER BE CREATED....?

WHY WE CANNOT CREATE FOLDER WITH THE  CON NAME....?


WELL, HERE IS WHY WE CANNOT DO SO:

ALL THE WORDS SUCH AS CON,PRN,COM1..COM9, AUX, LPT1..LPT9, ETC. CONVEYS A SPECIAL MEANING TO THE WINDOWS. THESE KEYWORDS HAVE A SPECIAL FUNCTIONS IN THE MEMORY. AND IF THERE IF THERE KEYWORDS ARE SOMEHOW IF ALLOWED THEN, THE PROCESS OF DATA HANDLING IN THE MEMORY CAN BE DISTURBED.

THE REASON IS THAT CON, PRN, LPT1..LPT9, ETC ARE UNDERLYING DEVICES. SO IF WE ARE ALLOWED TO CREATE SUCH FOLDERS, THERE WILL BE AN AMBIGUITY IN WHERE TO WRITE DATA WHEN THE DATA HAS TO GO TO THE SPECIFIED DEVICES.  IN OTHER WORDS. SO IF WE ARE ABLE TO CREATE CON FOLDER, WINDOWS WILL GET CONFUSED WHERE TO WRITE THE DATA, TO VIRTUAL CON FOLDER OR OUR FOLDER ONE.

NOW,TO CREATE SUCH FOLDER:

GOTO RUN->TYPE CMD AND PRESS ENTER

WRITE THIS CODE IN COMMAND PROMPT:

C:\> MD \\.\C:\CON

NOW, TRY TO DELETE THE FOLDER CREATED ABOVE .....!! YOU CAN’T DO IT…

NOW, HERE IS THE CODE FOR DELETING

CODE:

C:\> RD \\.\C:\CON

SO, WE CAN SAY THAT SOME THINGS ARE JUST NOT MEANT TO BE DISTURBED. ITS GOOD TO KNOW BUT ITS BAD TO MESS WITH IT.


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