Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <4188FC7C.6010508@bellsouth.net> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 09:42:52 -0600 From: Bobby McNulty User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew DeFaria CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: ls /dev/* References: <20041102200113 DOT GA22769 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20041103151252 DOT GD31627 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20041103152309 DOT GG31627 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> Sorry. I should have read further. Apparently the OP just wants >> *something* in /dev even if it is not what "should" be there. > > > The question of "should" is subjective I would think. I worry > sometimes, since /dev is "special" and a "pseudo" directory that what > I'm doing my break things in some manner. To date it works just fine. > And, as I've said, to me, disk drives are devices. Somebody suggested > /mnt. To me that's more for remote mounts, so my Z drive might be > better suited for /mnt but C and D are local and I would expect them > in /dev not /mnt.though one could argue that they too are mounted. > Right now we are just talking personal preferences... > >> I suggest just making the directory and downloading interesting jpeg >> images to the directory. That's what I'd do. > > > Hell a touch /dev/file would work (except other special things in /dev > like clipboard will not list - but curiously list with ls > /dev/clipboard)! > Sounds like a winner. I'd go along with having cygdrive changed to dev. dev holds all the devices, like aux, con, and others. lpt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/