1. You also cannot create folders with names AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL; these were all MS-DOS driver names and th legacy has carried on. CON stands for CONsole, btw.
2. The phrase does not have to be ‘Bush hid the facts’. "Bill can not dance", "John has the parts", "This app can break", "This pad has bugzs", "Feel the new power", "Matrix can not lie" all will cause the same effect. The bug with notepad is that it misinterprets the encoding of the file.
3. =rand() is a function you can invoke in MS Word; it prints the font test string – ‘The quick fox jumps over the lazy dog’ which is a sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet, used for font previews. The parameters it takes are p and s – Number of paragraphs and number of sentences, to be generated. So =rand(2,1) will generate two paras with 1 sentence each.
These features (except for #2) are known as ‘Easter Eggs’, undocumented code and behavior in applications and if you Google for it, you’ll find these in all sorts of products including watches and printers!
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2. The phrase does not have to be ‘Bush hid the facts’. "Bill can not dance", "John has the parts", "This app can break", "This pad has bugzs", "Feel the new power", "Matrix can not lie" all will cause the same effect. The bug with notepad is that it misinterprets the encoding of the file.
These features (except for #2) are known as ‘Easter Eggs’, undocumented code and behavior in applications and if you Google for it, you’ll find these in all sorts of products including watches and printers!