From: bill AT taniwha DOT org
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Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 12:30:48 +1300
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: /dev/zero support
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 bill AT taniwha DOT org wrote:
> 
> > /dev/null and /dev/crt are actually supported by dos itself (in a broken
> > way: replace /dev with anything at you still get the device), so
> > /dev/null support in djgpp is redundant.
> 
> Not true.  /dev/nul (single ell) and /dev/con are supported in a way you
> describe, but not /dev/null (two ells) and /dev/tty, the Unix
> equivalents.  (DOS devices are called NUL and CON.)  I don't know what
> /dev/crt is.

Opps, thanks, Eli. I'd forgotten that it was only on l in dos and that
it was con for the other device. con is the one I was thinking of, I
just forgot its name entirly (let alone its spelling).

Again, thanks for the corrections.

Bill
-- 
Leave others their otherness.