Re: Cygwin uninstall: Problem with /dev/nul

2010-11-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:11:46AM +, 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

Re: Cygwin uninstall: Problem with /dev/nul

2010-11-14 Thread TryingToHelp
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). -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Cygwin uninstall: Problem with /dev/nul

2010-09-30 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-10-01 02:49 skrev Al: >> >> cd /dev >> rm -f nul Someone, somewhere, has done echo crap > /dev/nul instead of the intended echo crap > /dev/null If the /dev/nul file is still around it should be possible to examine it and possible identify the culprit. It might be some script in Cygw

Re: Cygwin uninstall: Problem with /dev/nul

2010-09-30 Thread Al
> > cd /dev > rm -f nul > I havn't seen that, but simliar. There remained setup.log and setup.log.ful on my Desktop and I couldn't delete them. >From another Cygwin installation I was able to remove them with your receipe. rm -rf /cygdrive/c/Users/prefix/Desktop/setup.log rm -rf /cygdrive/c/Use

Re: Cygwin uninstall: Problem with /dev/nul

2010-09-30 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Max Funk! > If I delete the folder cygwin on my PC (Windows 7, 32 bit), > as described in the FAQ "Cygwin uninstall", then there is > remaining a special file > C:\cygwin\dev\nul > This file cannot be deleted afterwards from windows > (at least, I didn't find any possibility.) htt

Re: Cygwin uninstall: Problem with /dev/nul

2010-09-30 Thread Rance Hall
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Max Funk wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to report a problem with the cygwin uninstallation: > > If I delete the folder cygwin on my PC (Windows 7, 32 bit), > as described in the FAQ "Cygwin uninstall", then there is > remaining a special file > > C:\cygwin\dev\nul >

Cygwin uninstall: Problem with /dev/nul

2010-09-30 Thread Max Funk
Hello, I wanted to report a problem with the cygwin uninstallation: If I delete the folder cygwin on my PC (Windows 7, 32 bit), as described in the FAQ "Cygwin uninstall", then there is remaining a special file C:\cygwin\dev\nul This file cannot be deleted afterwards from windows (at least,