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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 20:50:02 +0200
From: Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi>
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On 12/15/2013 06:41 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:51:08 +0200
>> From: Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi>
>>
>> So support of /dev/null is broken for FreeDOS-1.1 at least under
>> Dosemu.
> Does it work if you replace /dev/null with NUL?  I expect it not to,
> because DJGPP just maps the former to the latter.
I tried and got exactly the same result as with /dev/null

> IOW, the null device (and maybe other character devices as well) is
> broken in FreeDOS-1.1.
It seems so.

Andris