D:> ?

Did you do it?

Device name is invalid, when trying to create a dir called Con :B

Keeheeheehee. And nobody knows why, not even Microsoft.

In early versions of MS-DOS, there were no folders, only files and disks.

DOS had "special" files though, for example, any data written to a file named NUL would be automatically thrown away.

CON was one of these special files- when a program attempted to read from CON, the user would be able to type data in. One use for this is if a user wanted to quickly make a amall text file without needing to use an editor, they just needed to say `COPY CON FILENAME.TXT` and enter the text they wanted.

One consequence of this though is that users couldn't create legitimate files that had one of these special names, but it wasn't considered much of a matter. Folders had to follow the same naming scheme as files, which meant that folders couldn't use them too. Windows still owes a lot of it's archetecture to DOS, which means still that Windows can't use files named CON, NUL, AUX, LPT1, etc.

I know for a fact that foxes are not quick.

Oh really? How do you know?

I JUST KNOW, OKAY??? GOD. :(

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I'm curious. But I have a Mac. :/

Aww. :(

It isn't allowing me to name any folder as "Con"...

What does it do?

It makes "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." loads of times.

Ohlol XD

Open the run dialog and run cmd to get a command line.

Type copy con nul and press enter.

Play around entering whatever you want. Commands, gibberish, doesn't matter. When you're bored, use CTRL-C to go back to normal

You can also try copy <filename> con at the command line.

Trying copy con con is a lot like copy con nul except you get double of everything back.

In case you're curious:

CON = CONsole
NUL = NULl device
LPT0-LPT9 = Line Printer Terminal (aka parallel/"printer" port) #0-9
COM0-COM9 = serial COMmunications port #0-9

... it doesn't let me do con for some reason X3

and I can't type in teh string... I don't have MS but Open Office

I remember this, iirc that is.

There is a also a car game hidden in excel.

Only one certain version though. Other older versions had things like flight simulators and a weird little 3D walkaround-type thing displaying credits.

Sadly, Microsoft now mandates that none of their software can have hidden features anymore. :(

I never heard of those ones. But yes, the game displayed the credits.

It's a shame really. I can understand from a bug squashing perspective, but I like them. There is also microscopic art in the blank spaces on cpus. Those were pretty fun.

The idea was that Microsoft should never make it's software have undocumented features, even if it's just something simple like credits. Then again I think the more fun solution would have just been to put the directions in the documentation, but still...

The problem there is that it would have to be supported. Still, I would simply not list it as a feature. but that's me.