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From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: less, TERM and TERMINFO
11 Dec 1996 18:31:12 -0800 :
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In-Reply-To: <199612110817.QAA29163@relay4.jaring.my> from "Mansuriatus Shahrir Amir" at Dec 11, 96 04:17:16 pm
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Mansuriatus Shahrir Amir wrote:
> 
> ii) I use sed and a little bash script to traverse all the files
>     in /usr/src changing all occurences of /dev/null to /dev/nul
[...]

This should *not* be necessary.  If you are using Win 95 and have
problems with using /dev/null, please upgrade to beta 17.1.

/dev/null is not an actual file in cygwin32.  It is part of the
magic that the cygwin.dll does...

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Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com
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