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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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