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Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 09:53:18 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: dev/null
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In-Reply-To: <3A597C2F.29181.362977A9@localhost>; from soren@wonderstorm.com on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:37:03AM -0500

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:37:03AM -0500, Soren Andersen wrote:
>On 7 Jan 2001, an entity purporting to be Christopher Faylor
>[Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>] wrote [regarding Re: dev/null]
>
>soren:
>>>  But manually, I just use 'nul'.
>
>Chris:
>> /dev/null in cygwin eventually translates to the Windows NUL device.
>
>I figured.
>
>> There is no reason to use 'NUL' rather than '/dev/null' since they are
>> both the same thing ... unless you enjoy using MS-DOS constructs rather than
>> UNIX ones.  That's sort of anti-Cygwin, though.
>
>NO! NO! I am not anti-Cygwin ;-). I LUV Cygwin.
>
>As a background general-knowledge sort of thing, I think its good to know 
>this. Allegory ... if you were stranded on a desert island with no way to buy 
>tiolet paper, would it be good to know how to make plant leaves very soft .. 
>? Someone might someday be working out a problem without Cygwin 
>around. I don't WISH it on them, but it could happen.

Hopefully these people are reading the appropriate mailing lists and
newsgroups for non-cygwin problems, then.

In general, I think it is a good idea to use cygwin constructs as much
as possible.  Then, if/when we modify cygwin so that it can work around
the brain-dead, nul, com, aux, prn stupidity foisted on us by Windows'
MS-DOS roots, people won't be scratching their heads thinking "But I
read that 'NUL' should work fine in the cygwin mailing list."

cgf

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