On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:11:46AM +0000, TryingToHelp wrote: >This is a known DOS/Windows bug. I'm fairly sure that DOS used NUL as a null >device, and that Windows kept it around (not sure why, guess it's for >backward-compatibility).
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