folder creation denial with the name "con"

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nabakumar

When we try to create a folder in Windows with the name ---
"con" it dosen't allow to create one . Why is it so?
 
con is 'console'

you can create a file the following way:

copy con myfile.txt (means, copy keyboard input to myfile.txt)
hello world
[crtl+z] (or F6) [enter] ...

Windows will now say, "one file copied'.

As 'con' is reserved for the purpose (keyboard input) you can not use this
for a file/folder name. If you'd want to copy files from con to another
folder, or the file 'con' to another file, it would confuse the system
 

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