[sunils]

MAGIC #1
Nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as "CON".
This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable. ..
At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn't answer why this happened!
TRY IT NOW, IT WILL NOT CREATE "CON" FOLDER

MAGIC #2
This is something pretty cool and neat...and unbelievable. ..
At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened!
Try it out yourself...
Open Microsoft Word and type
=rand (200, 99)
And then press ENTER


MAGIC #3
For those of you using Windows, do the following:
1. Open an empty notepad file
2. Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)
3. Save it as whatever you want.
4. Close it, and re-open it.
Is it just a really weird bug?
You can try the same thing above with another sentence "this app can break"

Explanation for Magic #1:
In windows the folder name and the special system variables share the same interface, so when you create a folder with a system variable name it will consider that folder already exist!!
These special system variables are available irrespective of path
You cannot create a folder with these names also:
CON, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3,COM1 to COM9 and LPT1 to LPT9....
CON means console, COM1 means serial port 1, LPT1 means parallel port 1

[Zdroyd]

I know why Magic #2 happens:

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=rand (loads the "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." scentince)

The first # (is how many paragraphs are writen with it)

The second # (is how many lines of the scentince per are in each paragraph)

The reason "=rand" loads that scentince is because it has each letter in the alphabet in it. Programers at Microsoft used it so they could test out MS Word.
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So if you type "=rand(1,2)" you get:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

If you type "=rand(0,0)" it outputs nothing.

Try It!

[tittat]

its really interesting man,i read about Magic#2 somewhere before.

[vigge_sWe]

I belive magic#3 was fixed in vista

[Zenax]

I just tried creating a folder called con and it did not work!

[TheMan177]

This is what you get when you try to create one of those directories via command line:

C:\>md con
The directory name is invalid.

Number three doesn't actually occur just with those phrases, it can happen with any particular string with the correct amount or frequency of characters. This causes Notepad to misinterpret the encoding of the file when you open it next.

[Smith6612]

The folder of CON doesn't work for me on Vista 64-bit, however the notepad trick where Bush Hid the Facts thing is fixed on Vista.

[divasmtec]

What happens when you try magic #2? I don't have microsoft word so i can't try it.

[kkenny]

Wow. very awkward.
+rep :]

[TheMan177]

Originally Posted by divasmtec

What happens when you try magic #2? I don't have microsoft word so i can't try it.

Rand prints the string "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." as many times as specified, its used as a filler.