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Re: Prn lpt1 nul aux ...Win Xp
- From: "Guettich, Ulrich, OPM2" <Ulrich dot Guettich at eads dot com>
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:42:46 +0200
- Subject: Re: Prn lpt1 nul aux ...Win Xp
> Hi,
>>
>> I have recognized that files named "aux", "lpt1", "nul", "prn" ... (old
DOS
>> devices) generated under Cygwin on a XP OS cannot be deleted anymore:
>>
>> rm: cannot unlink `prn': Permission denied
>>
>> Why? How to get rid of them?
>
>It's a bug in 1.5.10 that these files can be created. That will be fixed
>in the next version.
>
>In the meantime, build the below source with
>
> gcc ntdel.c -o ntdel -lntdll
>
>Let's say, the directory in which you created "nul" is C:\your\dir, then
>you should get rid of that file with
>
> ntdel c:/your/dir/nul
>
>Corinna
Works fine. Thanks!
Ulrich
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