Undesirable nul file with tlmgr.bat under Windows

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Thu Jul 11 15:18:01 CEST 2019


Hmmmm, then it should be treated as Unix and no "nul" be created.

Very strange.


On July 11, 2019 10:09:03 PM GMT+09:00, David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 14:07, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>
>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Norbert Preining wrote:
>> > Ahh, interesting. We need to fix that. No, it is not logging, it
>should
>> > be stuff that gets thrown away. On Unix we use "/dev/null", and on
>> Windows
>> > this is called "nul", but indeed, cygwin behaves likes Unix here.
>>
>> Could you please send me the output in your cygwin terminal of the
>> following command
>>         perl -e 'print $^O'
>> Thanks
>>
>
>I get
>
>$  perl -e 'print $^O'
>cygwin
>
>
>> Norbert
>>
>>


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