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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:53:20 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: Alexandre Oliva <oliva AT dcc DOT unicamp DOT br>
cc: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>, autoconf AT gnu DOT org, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: patch for autoheader.sh
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On 13 Jan 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Jan 12, 1999, "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks to Andris Pavenis for diagnosing the 
> > problem and finding a workaround.
> 
> I second that!  It has bugged me in the holidays, when I had to work
> on Windows at my parents...
> 
> > + # Force $tmpout to close to avoid file sharing problems under Windows
> > +   exec > con
> 
> This should probably be `exec > /dev/null', since `con' doesn't exist
> in most systems.
> 

No problems with /dev/null in DJGPP. But I don't know how it will be 
with for example CygWin (as I'm not using it). I see this as possible
source of problems on MS-DOS and Windows based systems. /dev/null is
emulated for DJGPP so there all is Ok. 

Andris