Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I am more than somewhat perplexed as to why the NUL device should be a >> security risk ... what are they thinking?? >> > > Frankly, I don't believe it; even Microsoft can't be that stupid. > And I can't find any suggestion that they've done this in a google > search. I think the OP is misdiagnosing his problem. > An older message suggests that a service pack induced this problem, per MS. I just tried it as non-admin on a W2K3 machine with recent hotfixes, and the command "dir >nul" _did_ work for me. Though neglected, it still sounds like a virus scanner issue to me.
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