Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Robert Schmidt Subject: Re: nul Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:22:45 +0200 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <1981E79C7C98A547B36D794FBEC5337002968191@moscntx1.russia.intl.pepsi.com> <417E09CE.2050005@schoenhaber.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-068-210.oslo.eur.slb.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) In-Reply-To: <417E09CE.2050005@schoenhaber.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Markus Schönhaber wrote: >> [snip] >> nor from cygwin shell. Not a big problem, but annoying. Any ideas on >> how to >> get rid of it? >> > Assuming you created > C:\some\path\nul > using > del \\.\C:\some\path\nul > in the Windows console might help you to get rid of it. I think even that will fail. The trick I ususally use is to rename it in the console, as CMD's "ren" seems to be more "ignorant" about nul than both mv, rm, del and even 4NT's "ren": [in CMD:] ren \\.\C:\full\path\nul __crap del __crap Cheers, Robse -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/