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From: pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org (Peter J. Farley III)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: /dev/null BASH bug?
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 17:17:32 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>You will have to investigate further, because your script works for me
>exactly as you'd expect.  "/dev/null" is supported by the DJGPP
>library on its lowest level, so the chance of the shell to have any
>impact on that is extremely low.
>
>A few things to check:
>
>	1) Are you running on Windows 95?  If so, try booting into
>plain DOS mode (no Windows at all).  I tested your script on DOS 6.2.

Yes, I'm running W95.  As I said in my reply to Daisuke Aoyama, I will
try under plain DOS 7 and DOS 6.22 and report back on the results.

>	2) Is the drive where you run it somehow unusual (e.g
>networked)?  If so, copy everything to a local drive and try again.

H: is a SCSI 1G IOMEGA JAZ drive.  SCSI card is IOMEGA JAZ JET, which
internally says it is Adaptec 2930 with Iomega BIOS 1.12.  I will try
moving it to a "real" HD and see if the results change.

>	3) Remove any Bash-specific settings in your CONFIG.SYS,
>AUTOEXEC.BAT and DJGPP.ENV and see if that changes anything.

AFAIK, I have no Bash-specific settings in CONFIG or in AUTOEXEC (see
my reply to Daisuke for actual contents), I only set these in the BAT
file that invokes Bash.

>Btw, when reporting information on program versions, it is best to
>post the output of `dir' or `ls -l', so the size and the timestamps
>are clearly visible.  Sometimes, updated ports are uploaded to DJGPP
>archives with the same version (since the version is derived from the
>official GNU release) which makes --version output ambiguous.  At
>least for Bash, the time stamp you've posted says that you seem to
>have the latest version, so the problem is most probably elsewhere.

OK, I'll remember that.

I'll report back when I have the DOS results.  Thanks for your
suggestions.

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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org)

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