From: "Tom St Denis" <tomstdenis AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: /dev/null
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"Thomas Lien" <tgunlien AT yahoo DOT com> wrote in message
news:20010709222811 DOT 9973 DOT qmail AT web14804 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com...
> To add to the discussion of various windows 2000
> problems with DJGPP, I have one. Here is what I typed.
>
> ********************************************
> d:/> echo $DJGPP
> D:\djgpp\djgpp.env
> d:/> echo $DJDIR
> d:/djgpp
> d:/> echo hi > /dev/null
> bash: /dev/null: Permission denied (EACCES)
> ********************************************
>
> What is wrong with my /dev/null redirection?

In DOS there is no /dev/null so use nul

For instances

copy /y *.* A: > nul

Tom