Things That Make You Go ?????????

Beebee · Things That Make You Go ?????????

For those of you using Windows try the following: -

Oddity 1.
You cannot create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as "CON".
Try it now, it will not create " CON " folder.

Oddity 2.
1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.

Oddity 3.
Open Microsoft Word and type
=rand (200, 99)
And then press ENTER

Anybody know of any other 'oddities' for Microsoft Products?

Aroenai

Oddity 2 does nothing, unless it's supposed to be Windows XP or something

EDIT: yeah, only works on the XP version of Notepad.exe

Oddity 3 is filler text, meant for generating proofs for formatting suggestions for memos, letters, etc.

EDIT: CON is a reserved word, it can't be used because it points to a device; it's a remnant of Dos. The same applies to trying to make "NUL", because it is used in such commands such as "copy *.* c:\files>NUL" which would cause nothing to appear on screen.

This will create a folder named CON though:

open cmd.exe
type "mkdir \\.\c:\CON" (assuming you wanted it on the C:\ drive)

Beebee

Thanks for clearing that up Aroenai, they did seem rather strange to me.