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Being an 'old' DOS type.......
con (in Windows/DOS) means console; and yes, it's a reserved word.
Waaaay back in DOS days, if you wanted to create a config.sys or autoexec.bat from scratch you typed
copy con: config.sys
files=20
buffers=20
etc, etc, etc and pressed the F6 key to end the file.
DOS copied your keystrokes from the console and created the file.
AND......it still works in XP from the DOS prompt !!! (yes there is still a DOS prompt in XP)
I tried the copy con thing and it worked. I got curious and keyed in "type con" and hit <enter>
Everything you typed after that made the computer type it exactly the same. Just hit <Ctrl-C> to abort.
the infamous blue screen of death...still used in some yahoo proggies and crash links but the update patch for IE fixes that bug and the IE script error also or could just use stayalive 2000
I had edit my file with notepad
(Click here)
I saved it con.hmtl (see error on kind of file) on my desktop (C:\windows\desktop).
Well i can't remove this file or rename from WinBox, but only from DOS prompt.
So tryed to create another one and I named con.html, because is a name reserved.
PS: I'm not tryed to crash my PC because I have an S3 Virge :-P