From: Daniel Barclay <daniel@fgm.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: where was mention of what creates NUL files?
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C93F457.9040302@fgm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100917193829.GA18327@calimero.vinschen.de>
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
...
>
> Note: Don't use DOS device names in Cygwin!
>
> Wrong:
>
> $ echo foo> NUL
> $ echo foo> nul
> $ echo foo> nul:
>
> Right:
>
> $ echo foo> /dev/null
Yes, I know. I'm not using NUL (or nul or nul:, etc.), but something
is.
(Now I'm thinking that it's an NTEmacs problem (perhaps thinking it's
running commands in a Windows/DOS shell rather than knowing it's
running them in Cygwin bash.).)
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-17 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-17 18:01 Daniel Barclay
2010-09-17 18:02 ` Eric Blake
2010-09-17 22:46 ` Corinna Vinschen
2010-09-18 3:37 ` Daniel Barclay [this message]
2010-09-20 10:22 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2013-06-27 18:35 ` g
2013-06-27 19:00 ` Ken Brown
2013-06-27 22:32 ` wynfield
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