From:	"Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: /dev/null
Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:11:55
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> > d:/> echo hi > /dev/null
> > bash: /dev/null: Permission denied (EACCES)
> 
> This is another known problem with W2K which awaits its research and
> solution.  Try this:
> 
>   echo hi >> /dev/null

Under Win2000 SP2 it says
"The system cannot find the path specified."

> To resolve this, someone should step with a debugger into the relevant
> library functions and see what does W2K break there.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have access to W2K, so I cannot dig into this.

I'd be happy to run any test programs on Win2K (plain, SP1, SP2) and
report results.

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