It is reserved by the people that write the Operating System.
It may very well be an old hold-over from DOS days that they
either keep around for compatibility reasons OR because
no one has taken the time to remove it from the old, oversized,
bloated code base.

A similar answer might be: "that is just the way it was always done"...

Sorry if that is not specific enough. It should be clear enough
to search for the history of this, with Google...

                                              Rick Glazier

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Venkat Viswanathan"

<<<< Easy answer: It is a special "reserved name". Rick Glazier

From: "Venkat Viswanathan" >on a side note you can't name a folder (in win xp at least)as>"con" (without quotes ofcourse) you can 
try if you have the time >even MS don't seem to know why >>>>

this is interesting.... is it possible to know "by whom" and "for whom" it is reserved?

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