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Re: dev/null
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: dev/null
- From: "Soren Andersen" <soren at wonderstorm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 08:37:03 -0500
- Reply-to: soren at wonderstorm dot com
On 7 Jan 2001, an entity purporting to be Christopher Faylor
[Christopher Faylor <cygwin@cygwin.com>] wrote [regarding Re: dev/null]
soren:
>> But manually, I just use 'nul'.
Chris:
> /dev/null in cygwin eventually translates to the Windows NUL device.
I figured.
> There is no reason to use 'NUL' rather than '/dev/null' since they are
> both the same thing ... unless you enjoy using MS-DOS constructs rather than
> UNIX ones. That's sort of anti-Cygwin, though.
NO! NO! I am not anti-Cygwin ;-). I LUV Cygwin.
As a background general-knowledge sort of thing, I think its good to know
this. Allegory ... if you were stranded on a desert island with no way to buy
tiolet paper, would it be good to know how to make plant leaves very soft ..
? Someone might someday be working out a problem without Cygwin
around. I don't WISH it on them, but it could happen.
Cheers,
soren
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