An Indian discovered that nobody can't create a folder anywhere named 

as

"con" 

This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the

whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! 

Does any one knows y.......................

There are also afew other similar issues which u may come across a few

and the reason are as follows

We cannot also create a folder with the following names 

Com1

Com2

Lpt1

Lpt2

Lpt3

Lpt4

There are some more like that

Try to rename or create a folder using any of the following names...

Aux

Nul

Con

Reason: 

con = console =Linux equivalent of (/dev/tty) 

nul =  Null file = Linux equivalent of (/dev/null) 

aux = printer / auxillary device. 

From old DOS days these are all special filenames. 

For Example if you say 

        "type filename > con" the file will be printed on console 

        "type filename > null" nothing will happen (like /dev/null in

Linux) - an infinite sink 

        "type filename > aux" File will go to printer.

        you can even write code in "C" like open("aux",2) and write to

the printer just like that ! 

        In DOS, you use a command copycon, this is the same "con" we 

are

talking about. 

So Windows doesn't allow you to create folders or files with these 

names

so that there is no confusion between that file and this convention. 

You need not worry. This system is followed only for upward

compatability to support C codes already written for DOS. Soon this

problem will vanish. 

P.S: Linux was smart enough to create a separate /dev/ directory where

you put all your special files and a mkdev program to create device

files ;-))