From: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk (Richard Donkin) Subject: Re: Announcing gnu-win32 beta 17.1 12 Dec 1996 04:19:31 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Reply-To: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Cc: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <199612111401.IAA14348@lesol1.dseg.ti.com> > On Wed, 11 Dec 1996 01:23:35 -0800 (PST), you wrote: > >Those of you who have tried to use /dev/null under Windows 95 > >with the beta 17 tools will be glad to hear that I've put up a new > >gnu-win32 beta 17.1 release which incorporates the patch from Marcus > >Daniels that fixes the file handler problem. > >As long as I was respinning the release, I also added a patch to ld which > >changes the default executable name to "a.exe" instead of "a.out". > > uname -v responds with 17.3 on my system. Is this the "17.0" release or > the "17.1" release? (echo hi > /dev/null works on my system; I > downloaded it on 09 Dec.) I just tried the echo hi > /dev/null and it works on my system (uname -v : 17.2). However, ls -l /dev/null fails, so this is a better test! I suspect bash is handling redirection to/from /dev/null as a special case - in fact now I think of it the config.sh for RCS only failed on non-redirection use of /dev/null. > -- > James Dumser 972-462-5335 dumser@ti.com Richard -- richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk http://www.inside-edge.co.uk/ Inside Edge Consultancy Client/Server and Internet Applications PGP key from: pgp-public-keys@keys.pgp.net -or- http://www.four11.com/ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".