> * Andrew DeFaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-11-02 22:07:41 -0800]: > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: >> >>> why isn't /dev a more "usual" directory? >>> cd /dev, ls /dev all fail, while >>> cat /dev/clipboard works. >> >> No one has implemented the special handling required for /dev which >> would enable things like opendir/readdir or cd to work. > > Actually I change the cygdrive prefix to dev. Just seems to make sense > to me that C: would be /dev/c as apposed to /cygdrive/c, which is longer > to type. When I ls /dev I get: > > $ ls /dev > c/ d/ z/
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