From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: MinGW vs. c-api.test Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 20:36:22 -0400 Message-ID: <20140611003622.ZVPBA.114266.root@cdptpa-web25> References: <831tuw1w6r.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402447016 22616 80.91.229.3 (11 Jun 2014 00:36:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:36:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 11 02:36:48 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WuWX2-0008Oo-5E for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:36:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42773 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WuWX1-0001Xe-Pi for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 20:36:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46636) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WuWWs-0001WL-Ht for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 20:36:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WuWWe-0001dS-6L for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 20:36:38 -0400 Original-Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.228]:2331 helo=cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WuWWe-0001bZ-1s for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 20:36:24 -0400 Authentication-Results: cdptpa-oedge01 smtp.user=dsmich@roadrunner.com; auth=pass (LOGIN) Original-Received: from [107.14.174.248] ([107.14.174.248:51703] helo=cdptpa-web25) by cdptpa-oedge01 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTPA id E4/70-15059-684A7935; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:36:22 +0000 In-Reply-To: <831tuw1w6r.fsf@gnu.org> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Sensitivity: Normal X-Originating-IP: from 184.56.129.232 by webmail.roadrunner.com; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 0:36:22 +0000 X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.118:2525 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: BaiduSpider X-Received-From: 107.14.166.228 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:17207 Archived-At: ---- Eli Zaretskii wrote:=20 > > From: David Kastrup > > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:56:46 +0200 > >=20 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >=20 > > >> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:05:52 +0100 > > >> From: Neil Jerram > > >>=20 > > >> On 2014-06-09 20:32, ludo@gnu.org wrote: > > >> > What=E2=80=99s the name of /dev/null on Windows? > > >>=20 > > >> NUL > > > > > > Yes, "nul" case-insensitively. > >=20 > > If I remember correctly, even something like C:\tmp\nul.txt would serve > > as null device >=20 > Yes, any file name whose basename is nul.WHATEVER is also a null > device. "nul" is just the simplest form of all possible ones. >=20 > > though I cannot vouch for this remaining true with NT-based Windows > > systems. It was the case for those versions running on top of MSDOS > > I'm pretty sure. >=20 > It still works on modern Windows systems as well. This was an old msdos batch file trick. There was no way to directly tell = if a directory existed, But if c:\some\dir\nul "existed" then c:\some\dir did. Ugh. Glad those days are long past... -Dale