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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:22:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Sam Steingold <sds AT gnu DOT org>
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Subject: Re: ls /dev/*
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On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Sam Steingold wrote:

> why isn't /dev a more "usual" directory?
> cd /dev, ls /dev all fail, while
> cat /dev/clipboard works.

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN825>
HTH,
	Igor
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