X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1284764759-589ee6000001-w5GHUG X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: daniel@fgm.com X-Barracuda-Apparent-Source-IP: 216.2.55.102 X-ASG-Whitelist: Client Message-ID: <4C93F457.9040302@fgm.com> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:05:59 -0400 From: Daniel Barclay User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.13) Gecko/20100914 SeaMonkey/2.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Subject: Re: where was mention of what creates NUL files? References: <4C93A171.4040402@fgm.com> <4C93A3C4.80508@redhat.com> <20100917193829.GA18327@calimero.vinschen.de> X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: where was mention of what creates NUL files? In-Reply-To: <20100917193829.GA18327@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: UNKNOWN[216.2.55.102] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1284764759 X-Barracuda-Encrypted: AES128-SHA X-Barracuda-URL: http://spam.fgm.com:8000/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Corinna Vinschen wrote: ... > > Note: Don't use DOS device names in Cygwin! > > Wrong: > > $ echo foo> NUL > $ echo foo> nul > $ echo foo> nul: > > Right: > > $ echo foo> /dev/null Yes, I know. I'm not using NUL (or nul or nul:, etc.), but something is. (Now I'm thinking that it's an NTEmacs problem (perhaps thinking it's running commands in a Windows/DOS shell rather than knowing it's running them in Cygwin bash.).) Daniel -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple