From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	If dd doesn't support /dev/zero, what _does_ it support?
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OK, I try to use the DJGPP port of GNU dd to create an 8 KB file
filled with nul bytes.  DJGPP presumably "transparently supports
Unix-style devices such as `/dev/null' and `/dev/tty'" to an extent
(DJGPP FAQ 22.21), but I can't get it to work.

C:\kdg>dd if=/dev/zero of=kdg.chr count=8 bs=1024
c:/personal/djgpp/bin/dd: /dev/zero: No such file or directory
(ENOENT)

What's the proper method to make a file filled with zeroes?

And how do I list the supported devices?  This is what I get:
C:\>ls /dev/
c:/personal/djgpp/bin/ls: /dev/: No such file or directory (ENOENT)

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