Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:17:31 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: /dev/null
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On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Thomas Lien wrote:

> d:/> echo $DJGPP
> D:\djgpp\djgpp.env
> d:/> echo $DJDIR
> d:/djgpp
> d:/> echo hi > /dev/null
> bash: /dev/null: Permission denied (EACCES)

This is another known problem with W2K which awaits its research and
solution.  Try this:

  echo hi >> /dev/null

and you will see something that might give a clue.

To resolve this, someone should step with a debugger into the relevant
library functions and see what does W2K break there.

Unfortunately, I don't have access to W2K, so I cannot dig into this.