From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor) Subject: Re: /dev 1 Aug 1998 17:25:06 GMT Message-ID: <6pvj1i$eoe$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> References: <054701bdbae4$34a76f60$56341cac DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT neptune DOT software DOT ntep DOT nec DOT co DOT jp> X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test63 (15 March 1998) In article <054701bdbae4$34a76f60$56341cac DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT neptune DOT software DOT ntep DOT nec DOT co DOT jp>, jjd wrote: >> I recently installed B19, and everything is fine, except my /dev >>directory didn't get created. Am I missing something? I uninstalled and >>reinstalled, to no avail. I need to have ptys and ttys for some perl >>scripts that I'm working on (Expect stuff), and this is getting quite >>frustrating. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >i think you have to do something like: > mount CON /dev/tty > mount NUL /dev/null > ... >but the directories won't get created because it's only a logical >association. > >hope this helps, Actually, it doesn't. You don't have to do this. In fact, please don't do this. /dev/tty and /dev/null work out of the box, as you'd expect. Adding these mount commands will just make cygwin32 work harder to produce similar results. -- cgf AT cygnus DOT com "Everything has a boolean value, if you stand http://www.cygnus.com/ far enough away from it." -- Galena Alyson Canada