From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: MinGW vs. c-api.test Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 21:00:44 +0300 Message-ID: <831tuw1w6r.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83lht730k8.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4x56fql.fsf@gnu.org> <049f9e107bbc2b91ea65015e6b990eb4@ossau.homelinux.net> <83ha3s231r.fsf@gnu.org> <87wqcorc5d.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii 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 1402423277 28096 80.91.229.3 (10 Jun 2014 18:01:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:01:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 10 20:01:08 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 1WuQM7-000854-B9 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 20:01:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41572 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WuQM6-0003b3-TD for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:01:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34347) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WuQLw-0003ap-Ko for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:01:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WuQLr-0004EZ-2z for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:00:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:32835) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WuQLk-0004CP-UJ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N6Y00600SI1C300@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 21:00:43 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N6Y006IXSP7CO00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 21:00:43 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87wqcorc5d.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:17206 Archived-At: > 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 s= erve > as null device Yes, any file name whose basename is nul.WHATEVER is also a null device. "nul" is just the simplest form of all possible ones. > though I cannot vouch for this remaining true with NT-based Windows > systems. It was the case for those versions running on top of MSDO= S > I'm pretty sure. It still works on modern Windows systems as well.