From: pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org (Peter J. Farley III) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: /dev/null BASH bug? Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 17:17:32 GMT Organization: The Dorsai Embassy, Inc. Lines: 43 Message-ID: <33945034.3474698@news.dorsai.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pjfarley.ppp1.dorsai.org To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Eli Zaretskii wrote: >You will have to investigate further, because your script works for me >exactly as you'd expect. "/dev/null" is supported by the DJGPP >library on its lowest level, so the chance of the shell to have any >impact on that is extremely low. > >A few things to check: > > 1) Are you running on Windows 95? If so, try booting into >plain DOS mode (no Windows at all). I tested your script on DOS 6.2. Yes, I'm running W95. As I said in my reply to Daisuke Aoyama, I will try under plain DOS 7 and DOS 6.22 and report back on the results. > 2) Is the drive where you run it somehow unusual (e.g >networked)? If so, copy everything to a local drive and try again. H: is a SCSI 1G IOMEGA JAZ drive. SCSI card is IOMEGA JAZ JET, which internally says it is Adaptec 2930 with Iomega BIOS 1.12. I will try moving it to a "real" HD and see if the results change. > 3) Remove any Bash-specific settings in your CONFIG.SYS, >AUTOEXEC.BAT and DJGPP.ENV and see if that changes anything. AFAIK, I have no Bash-specific settings in CONFIG or in AUTOEXEC (see my reply to Daisuke for actual contents), I only set these in the BAT file that invokes Bash. >Btw, when reporting information on program versions, it is best to >post the output of `dir' or `ls -l', so the size and the timestamps >are clearly visible. Sometimes, updated ports are uploaded to DJGPP >archives with the same version (since the version is derived from the >official GNU release) which makes --version output ambiguous. At >least for Bash, the time stamp you've posted says that you seem to >have the latest version, so the problem is most probably elsewhere. OK, I'll remember that. I'll report back when I have the DOS results. Thanks for your suggestions. ---------------------------------------------------- Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org)