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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft Software => Topic started by: Faust on 26 June 2003, 23:52

Title: Yes I'm sure we all know Windows is crap, but heres a few *more* reasons.
Post by: Faust on 26 June 2003, 23:52

Yeah well, add it to the "millions of reasons why Windows is shit list."  OK, go to a folder in a Windows OS.  Make a file.  Call it com1.  Woops...  Try again and make a file called, oh I dunno, lpt1...  You can have about 1 to 2 minutes of fun trying to work out what Unix devices you cant name files as...  Apparently it has no central device folder so it just lets you reference devices from anywhere...  Thus no creating files that look like device names.  ;)  Now for someone to tell me whether we can get a copy C:/con/con type thing going from this...

Oh and kudos for this goes to a dude at my LUG, not me.  ;)

Title: Yes I'm sure we all know Windows is crap, but heres a few *more* reasons.
Post by: Laukev7 on 27 June 2003, 01:23

You're right, I tried it in Windows 2000. The "auto-crash" feature (ie c:\con\con) doesn't work, though.

How do you access the devices, anyway? Does anyone need to in Windows?

Title: Yes I'm sure we all know Windows is crap, but heres a few *more* reasons.
Post by: Kupotek on 27 June 2003, 23:44

ROFL  This is not a  bad thing.  Nor is it exploitable, so quit your trippin and find some real evidence as to why you dont like windows, cos this doesn't cut it.