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Re: Cygwin uninstall: Problem with /dev/nul


On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:11:46AM +0000, TryingToHelp wrote:
>This is a known DOS/Windows bug. I'm fairly sure that DOS used NUL as a null
>device, and that Windows kept it around (not sure why, guess it's for
>backward-compatibility).

This thread is more than a month old.  There is no reason to resurrect it.

cgf

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