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		whoopdedo on March 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word fo... And to this day we're still barred from creating files or directories named CON, PRN, NUL ... Damn you, IBM

loevborg on March 26, 2014 [–]

Not just CON but also con.txt, con.js, etc.! Try cloning a git repository with a file called con.js using msysgit. The result is that, when msysgit tries to clone the file, the contents of the file `con.js` are printed to stdout, i.e. to CON.

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