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Re: where was mention of what creates NUL files?
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
...
Note: Don't use DOS device names in Cygwin!
Wrong:
$ echo foo> NUL
$ echo foo> nul
$ echo foo> nul:
Right:
$ echo foo> /dev/null
Yes, I know. I'm not using NUL (or nul or nul:, etc.), but something
is.
(Now I'm thinking that it's an NTEmacs problem (perhaps thinking it's
running commands in a Windows/DOS shell rather than knowing it's
running them in Cygwin bash.).)
Daniel
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