why windows allowed us to create a folder as "con" ??

Question

i tried a lot to create a folder names as "con" , but it says the desired device name is not known.. can you tell me why this is happening?? thanks in advance

Duplicate of Windows and renaming folders - the ‘con’ issue

Answer 1

con is a reserved word, from the old DOS days when con was a device name for console. Because of the potential ambiguity from having both a device and folder name the same, Windows does not allow a folder named con.

Answer 2

See this question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/448438/windows-and-renaming-folders-the-con-issue

The short version is that there's already a filesystem object named "con".

Answer 3

As an extra bit of trivia, trying to browse to C:\Con\Con.wav would crash Windows (Windows 95 if I remember correctly).

Answer 4

Look here: MS-DOS Device Driver Names Cannot be Used as File Names

Answer 5

Con - console Prn - printer Com1 - comm port

This names are reserved words since older days of dos. Those days writing to the device was through opening these devices as file