On: Windows NTFS Tricks Collection

[aksss]

Con was short for console, I think. “Copy con:test.bat” was a quick way to create and fill out a batch file provided you could write it error-free in one go.

[rbanffy → aksss]

It's appeal is mostly you didn't need to use `edlin`.

[marcofatica → aksss]

still works on win10! and you can backspace, but only the current line, so don't press enter until you're really sure