Reserved names?

[mendhak]

Make a new folder, and try to name it aux, or nul or con.

Why does it not work?

[Pino]

Make a new folder, and try to name it aux, or nul or con.

Why does it not work?

Nope, doesnt work here on XP

[thegreatone]

They are reserved folder/file names, i can't remember why, but its true.

[ALL]

i got this while trying to save a txt file named that:


i also got a different error in photoshop, it said "this file name is locked" is there somthing going on on my computer that i dont know about?

[Cander]

what part of "reserved device name" is so hard to understand?

[visualAd]

Yes they are reserved names for device files. A full list of which can be found here.

If you have a printer connected to LPT1 you can type the following at the command line and it will print it:

C:\>echo hello > lpt1

They are just like regular files, in that you can read and write to them but they instead correspond to devices.