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RE: ls /dev/*


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: 03 November 2004 15:23

> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:12:52AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:07:41PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> >>Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>why isn't /dev a more "usual" directory?
> >>>>cd /dev, ls /dev all fail, while
> >>>>cat /dev/clipboard works.
> >>>
> >>>No one has implemented the special handling required for 
> /dev which 
> >>>would enable things like opendir/readdir or cd to work.
> >>
> >>Actually I change the cygdrive prefix to dev. Just seems to 
> make sense 
> >>to me that C: would be /dev/c as apposed to /cygdrive/c, 
> which is longer 
> >>to type. When I ls /dev I get:
> >>
> >>$ ls /dev
> >>c/  d/  z/
> >>
> >>A C, D and Z drive (the Z drive is to my backup partition 
> on my Linux box).
> >
> >While, you are welcome to redefine /cygdrive any way you 
> want, the unix
> >paradigm does not put filesystems under /dev.  That is for devices.
> >
> >In any event, this has nothing to do with the actual 
> question.  Even if
> >this was something that makes sense, it doesn't help the OP meet his
> >goals in any way.
> 
> Sorry.  I should have read further.  Apparently the OP just 
> wants *something*
> in /dev even if it is not what "should" be there.
> 
> I suggest just making the directory and downloading 
> interesting jpeg images
> to the directory.  That's what I'd do.


  In my one I put loads of text files with all the meanest comments off the
cygwin list!  Now when I want to reply to a post I don't even need to write
anything!  'fortune /dev' in my .sig file does it all for me! 


    cheers, 
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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