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Post #AyCjRlqJB31xIjkAd6 by [email protected] |
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y'all, my husband (not a tech guy) just managed to stumble innocently into … |
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Post #AyCjl4ctZ2XP3lfrPM by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea and yet underlying NT would do it fine... |
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Post #AyCjl4iZDx4hLMKOFU by [email protected] |
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@Rairii to my understanding, you have to go to *extraordinary* lengths to convi… |
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Post #AyClL1KnNfWvEGueq8 by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea windows 11 actually started allowing "con.txt", only &quo… |
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Post #AyClL1SwtM3HdYjAY4 by [email protected] |
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@seri interesting, my husband is still on windows 10 due to his computer (which… |
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Post #AyCoTHqSB7BgcCM0JM by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea Wow, that's STILL there? I seem to recall CON, PRN, NUL from MS… |
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Post #AyCoTHwpnOI8vzL6G0 by [email protected] |
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@acsawdey one does not Simply yank out legacy hacks from a codebase that's … |
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Post #AyCpazcjuMH4NFB4ym by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea @acsawdey Yup, 11 allows reserved names without tricks as long as t… |
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Post #AyCpoO7c8W8u7M0SKu by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea @seri If you wish to upgrade to 11 regardless, all you need to do i… |
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Post #AyD07OImgpOrihvn6W by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea does this apply even if you don’t use a file extension? |
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Post #AyD07OQEF9M45nPjhw by [email protected] |
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@jason it applies completely independently of the existence or nonexistence of … |
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Post #AyD07OWxq6k6QgZ7Cq by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea ah ok, neat |
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Post #AyD07OdLSNqYkTYD9U by [email protected] |
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@jason @0xabad1dea another cursed fact about the reserved filenames: COM¹, COM… |
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Post #AyDFMOvEAJItIcWnM8 by [email protected] |
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@zwol @0xabad1dea @jason this is truly cursed. i will see \\?\ and \\.\ in my n… |
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Post #AyDFsyrA66Ig0yA4Su by [email protected] |
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@tati @0xabad1dea @jason the things that make this truly cursed for me are not … |
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Post #AyDteKRJZ9bmmBdjM0 by [email protected] |
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@zwol @jason @0xabad1dea love how windows even has casefolding for the uppercas… |
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Post #AyDxYpmQWt1w3Y9O8u by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea Somewhere DOS gods are smiling on us. ABad1dea would be to use \\?\… |
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Post #AyF66SS2lVDuLB7W0e by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea has he even inquired why the first disk is called C and not A? |
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Post #AyF66SYmMSbwg4GtVY by [email protected] |
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@MonniauxD @0xabad1dea Fun fact: you can install Windows in such way that your … |
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Post #AyF6QXOY5vBXSs3nua by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea I was never a windows user and am not really sure what the problem … |
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Post #AyF6QXVdfYr9orNSxk by [email protected] |
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@LinuxAndYarn there are a set of globally reserved filenames (that connect dire… |
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Post #AyF9dfk2fm9eyj4IT2 by [email protected] |
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@zwol @jason @0xabad1dea Having filesystems see filenames as something other th… |
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Post #AyF9eZW9IcJdxqzzaS by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea decades ago WordPerfect for DOS wouldn't let you name a file .C… |
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Post #AyF9fTMreKABBH5MtE by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea "You have unwittingly disturbed the slumber of an ancient horr… |
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Post #AyF9gOjsLRRF79I3Ae by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea no (re: one does not simply...), at that point you start fresh usin… |
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Post #AyF9gYGSvdr4epbhia by [email protected] |
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@jason This was changed with Windows 11 – names like con.txt now refer to reg… |
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Post #AyF9iRQRKMLw1eAp0a by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea naming it like CONstitution.txt would have a lot of swag potentially |
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Post #AyF9mNWDnJxT4Ekstc by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea @Rairii The quickest way I've seen requires installing WSL, whi… |
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Post #AyF9mNeNJ0TpTWZObY by [email protected] |
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@xgranade @0xabad1dea @RairiiYou could probably do it remotely over SMB - once … |
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Post #AyF9mw2fRC788iCHBo by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea this triggers neurons that haven't typed COPY CON FOO.TXT in ma… |
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Post #AyF9mw8h4mw0RP15aC by [email protected] |
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@th when I last did that, I was too young to know what it was 'actually'… |
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Post #AyF9nF30m8g95HVJrc by [email protected] |
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Not really, PowerShell help a lot. |
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Post #AyF9nN1X7WFXp0sFfc by [email protected] |
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@raynerlucas @0xabad1dea Gods below! It's CLIPPY!! |
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Post #AyF9nyokbUbV2NBa1Q by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea lolsob |
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Post #AyF9q7dKnVUwxTrqC0 by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea @acsawdey yup, and the thing that's going to break is something… |
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Post #AyF9sILFxGFgkVRoG0 by [email protected] |
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Post #AyF9sU4gKi7l8Zmk5Y by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea clearly this calls for a @tomscott video https://www.youtube.com/wa… |
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Post #AyF9t7X3d8zlVsMSES by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea I ran into this awkward thing like a decade ago and it sent me down… |
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Post #AyF9vH516SBZhiGx84 by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea CP/M strikes again! |
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Post #AyF9x7v48HYZs9V85I by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea And it doesn't matter what the file extension is. Someone creat… |
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Post #AyF9yMGeGvykf6BRHE by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea I seem to remember that you could get into blue screen territory on… |
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Post #AyF9zvAI0fWnBSxEKe by [email protected] |
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@GroupNebula563 notably apparently as of Windows 11 you can now name files con.… |
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Post #AyF9zzcnQchv12K3Jw by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea Man, for a layman that's a real head scratcher. I can't bel… |
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Post #AyFA0zgUgyVLUSWsgy by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea lately I had a shower thought about the .con TLD, who would use it … |
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Post #AyFA2jU9tGoDpTaYSW by [email protected] |
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@GroupNebula563 this makes me wonder if there is a list of examples of this sor… |
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Post #AyFA35kD8GimrdGgXA by [email protected] |
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@th @0xabad1deaThe installer has modified your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. The original … |
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Post #AyFA4bZ8J5iHqUoAJk by [email protected] |
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@pikhq @0xabad1dea in CP/M the magic device names were always followed by a “… |
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Post #AyFA4o9jUq7UtU1Z20 by [email protected] |
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@xgranade @0xabad1dea @Rairii echo "foo" > \\?\c:\somepath\nul |
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Post #AyFA73zdaLEKaiNTjU by [email protected] |
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@eythian @0xabad1dea IIRC, that was Win9x line, and you'd BSOD it by openin… |
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Post #AyFCVagZt0oKqNHn3Q by [email protected] |
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@acsawdey @0xabad1dea Everything about DOS was like if someone who had no idea … |
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Post #AyFCVanfSeTxCMbS6a by [email protected] |
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@dalias @0xabad1dea I mean, they just copied CP/M in so many ways for DOS 1.0, … |
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Post #AyFCVath6FIpV3QGUy by [email protected] |
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@acsawdey @dalias @0xabad1dea What's the story about Kildall and IBM?(Nb I … |
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Post #AyFCVb04iWPHoqPMRc by [email protected] |
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@MonniauxD @dalias @0xabad1dea There’s a story that he was out flying his pla… |
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Post #AyFCbzbKAHUzr2shU0 by [email protected] |
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Post #AyFCgbog1U7FXHKP0C by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] the horrors of legacy windows takes another soul |
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Post #AyFG7HTg38D08auowi by [email protected] |
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@0xabad1dea @LinuxAndYarn and the same goes for a few other acronyms that you m… |
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Post #AyFGKP6522zvX88TB2 by [email protected] |
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@overeducatedredneck @0xabad1dea @acsawdey Possibly literal post mortems, becau… |
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Post #AyFuce6zwUFnToonMu by [email protected] |
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@jernej__s @0xabad1dea Yes, that's it, now memories are coming back! I thin… |
