From: "Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: /dev/null Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:11:55 Organization: Aspen Technology, Inc. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3b4ae2fb.sandmann@clio.rice.edu> References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1010710111654 DOT 18978K-100000 AT is> NNTP-Posting-Host: dcloan.hou.aspentech.com X-Trace: selma.aspentech.com 994781770 27404 10.32.115.107 (10 Jul 2001 16:16:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: postmaster AT aspentech DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Jul 2001 16:16:10 GMT X-NewsEditor: ED-1.5.8 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > > 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 Under Win2000 SP2 it says "The system cannot find the path specified." > 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. I'd be happy to run any test programs on Win2K (plain, SP1, SP2) and report results.