Windows can still create an additional short 8.3 alias for a long file name.
O.m.g.
They should have removed this ancient handbrake long ago. Now I learn that it not just still exists, but is also still engaged by default.
Okay. Now go to File Explorer and right click to create a new text file and try to name it “con”. That’s three letters: con. You can’t do it. Not allowed. Because CON has been reserved (in every directory on every drive) for piping to and from console since MS-DOS 2 or so. (I think 2 is when they stole pipes from Unix)
Okay. Now, open just about any kind of desktop window and double click in its upper left corner. In > 9 windows out of 10 that action still closes the window even though the “close window” button was moved to the upper right corner by Windows 3. Even though a bunch of modern applications don’t even have any icon there at all any more.
I still double-click the left corner every now and then. I’ve found myself using CTRL+INS and Shift+INS lately because CTRL+C/V keeps giving me very inconsistent results. Particularly in terminals. I remember using the the same hotkeys in MS-DOS editor.
What if I create the file con in wsl, will it also not be allowed?
If you do manage to create it, you’ll have trouble accessing or deleting it.
I dare you to try it
I think it’s likely it just won’t work either but I don’t want to break anything on a work machine 😁
Just say you wanted to run
echo "someField=someValue" > .confbut made a typo in the target filename or so 😜
Try to save a file to “PRN”.
