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Re: Q: How to configure /dev/null
- To: Larry Hall <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Subject: Re: Q: How to configure /dev/null
- From: Richard Kasperowski <kasper at altisimo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 15:50:38 -0500
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: Altisimo Computing
- References: <2.2.32.19971118145939.0098c764@ma.ultranet.com>
- Reply-To: kasper at altisimo dot com
Larry Hall wrote:
>
> At 05:18 PM 11/17/97 -0500, Richard Kasperowski wrote:
> >How do I create a valid /dev/null on NT? TIA.
>
> Create a directory /dev/null. Works for me.
That doesn't quite work. For example, the "configure" script for RCS
5.7 attempts to execute this line:
//d/gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/diff /dev/null conftest1
which results in this error:
//d/gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/diff: /dev/null/conftest1: No such
file or directory
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Richard Kasperowski Altisimo Computing
kasper@altisimo.com Cambridge, MA, USA
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