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Re: bash problem b17.1 under Windows NT 4/NTFS


Mark Levine wrote:
> 
> I am running b17.1 under Windows NT 4.0.
> 
> The following command sequence when run under bash fails when running on an
> NTFS file system:
> 
>         % cat >foo <<EOF
>         > aaa
>         > bbb
>         > EOF
>         bash.exe: 49069028: No such file or directory
> 
> The file foo is created but it is empty, the number in the error messages
> sometimes is different, last few digits change.
> 
> The above works fine on a FAT file system partition.
> 
> As a result of this problem I can not build any of the GNU software from
> source because the configure script will fail because of this problem.

The FAQ! The FAQ!  I haven't read the FAQ!  No time to waste, I must
make haste, no time to read the FAQ!


In other words, mkdir /tmp

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