Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 09:53:18 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: dev/null Message-ID: <20010108095318.E26292@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20010107124950 DOT A22232 AT redhat DOT com> <3A597C2F DOT 29181 DOT 362977A9 AT localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i 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 ] 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple