Make a new folder, and try to name it aux, or nul or con.
Why does it not work?
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Make a new folder, and try to name it aux, or nul or con.
Why does it not work?
Nope, doesnt work here on XPQuote:
Originally Posted by mendhak
They are reserved folder/file names, i can't remember why, but its true.
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?
what part of "reserved device name" is so hard to understand?
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:
They are just like regular files, in that you can read and write to them but they instead correspond to devices.Code:C:\>echo hello > lpt1