Undesirable nul file with tlmgr.bat under Windows

[David Carlisle]

oh my answer was using a cygwin perl, was the OP using a native widows perl
but from a cygwin shell? I'll leave Torsten to confirm...

On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 14:19, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:

> 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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