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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: ls /dev/*
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 22:07:41 -0800
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote:
>
>> why isn't /dev a more "usual" directory?
>> cd /dev, ls /dev all fail, while
>> cat /dev/clipboard works.
>
> No one has implemented the special handling required for /dev which 
> would enable things like opendir/readdir or cd to work.

Actually I change the cygdrive prefix to dev. Just seems to make sense 
to me that C: would be /dev/c as apposed to /cygdrive/c, which is longer 
to type. When I ls /dev I get:

$ ls /dev
c/  d/  z/

A C, D and Z drive (the Z drive is to my backup partition on my Linux box).
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