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

[Zdenek Wagner]

As Philip wrote, the null device should be nul: with a colon, it is
consistent with drive letters. It probably used to work without the
colon in previous versions and has been changed recently. I have only
Windows XP and Windows 7 thus I cannot check whether -O nul: helps.

Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml

čt 10. 2. 2022 v 11:01 odesílatel Jan Netík <netikja at gmail.com> napsal:
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> Interestingly, under Windows 11, when I run `wget ctan.org -O nul` in CMD with wget.exe shipped with texlive, I got no nul file. JN
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> čt 10. 2. 2022 v 10:25 odesílatel Philip Taylor (Royal Holloway) <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk> napsal:
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>> 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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