[EXT] Re: TLUtils::check_on_working_mirror creates nul file on Windows

[Philip Taylor (Royal Holloway)]

On 10/02/2022 00:38, Norbert Preining wrote:
> ..
> Siep, anyone on Windows, can you confirm that a "nul" file is generated
> when calling wget -O nul ... ?

Not here, not under Windows 7.  But I believe that the "null" device
should actually be specified as "nul:", not just "nul".  As in "con:".
etc. Maybe try adding the colon.



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