Achieving the Impossible

Why cant you create it ?

And when I tryed to save the picture as "con" I got this.
:)

Watch this space. All will be revealed in due course.

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It's time to reveal the method, or trick that I used. :)

The characters c and n are as entered directly from the keyboard, but the o isn't all it seems. It is actually a symbol that, to all intents and purposes, looks as though it is.

For this, I used my friend Character Map and carefully selected a suitable character.



I clicked on Copy to place the character in the clipboard for later use. I then created the folder as usual and renamed it con, using the Ctrl+V shortcut to insert the o character.

LOL now that was worth the wait. Your a horse of a different color that's for sure.
Fabe

It's been a while since I messed with DOS... wasn't con one of the reserved words (like lpt1)? Con... console, iirc. Like "copy con xyz.bat" --> copy contents of console into xyz.bat, i.e. DOS would wait for you to type stuff (from the console) and put what you typed into xyz.bat. If memory serves right.

Edit:
Extended ascii, always good for laughs. Back before XP it was the good ol' alt-255 char.

And here are some more.

Dwarf said:

It's time to reveal the method, or trick that I used. :)

The characters c and n are as entered directly from the keyboard, but the o isn't all it seems. It is actually a symbol that, to all intents and purposes, looks as though it is.

For this, I used my friend Character Map and carefully selected a suitable character.



I clicked on Copy to place the character in the clipboard for later use. I then created the folder as usual and renamed it con, using the Ctrl+V shortcut to insert the o character.

You called my method convoluted, and this is your method.

Open up cmd prompt, type this: mkdir \\.\c:\users\name\Desktop\con

Thanks dwarf. :)