RE: Errors when trying to access /dev/null

2003-10-17 Thread Sandy Pyke
Problem solved! I do have null.sys on my system but it was not listed in the Windows device manager. It somehow got uninstalled. I looked for a while for some manual way to re-install it to no avail, so I re-installed Windows XP. Now cygwin works fine, but just about everything else is broken...

Re: Errors when trying to access /dev/null

2003-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:15:15PM -0400, Sandy Pyke wrote: See additional info below. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:11 AM First, in Windows Explorer remove a /dev directory if you (or any

RE: Errors when trying to access /dev/null

2003-10-16 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 20:49, Sandy Pyke wrote: I meant a C:\Cygwin\dev directory. Such directory doesn't exist, right? That's right. I've checked the entire HD and there is no dev to be found from explorer. :) There's no error in it. Did you try `ls -l /dev/null'? See

Re: Errors when trying to access /dev/null

2003-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:49:47AM -0400, Sandy Pyke wrote: Yeah, gotta admit of all things I never thought 'null' would give me a problem. Guess you can say I got a problem with nothing... Yeah, obviously :-) As I've mentioned, I have been able to get this working on another machine. I took

Re: Errors when trying to access /dev/null

2003-10-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:49:47AM -0400, Sandy Pyke wrote: Yeah, gotta admit of all things I never thought 'null' would give me a problem. Guess you can say I got a problem with nothing... Yeah, obviously :-) As I've mentioned, I have been

Re: Errors when trying to access /dev/null

2003-10-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:21:37AM -0400, Sandy Pyke wrote: Hello all, I am new to Cygwin and I've run across a problem. I have installed Cygwin on two different Windows XP Pro machines and one is working fine and the other is not. On both machines I did a Default installation plus some

RE: Errors when trying to access /dev/null

2003-10-15 Thread Sandy Pyke
See additional info below. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:11 AM First, in Windows Explorer remove a /dev directory if you (or any configure script) created one. I've confirmed that there is no /dev

Errors when trying to access /dev/null

2003-10-14 Thread Sandy Pyke
Hello all, I am new to Cygwin and I've run across a problem. I have installed Cygwin on two different Windows XP Pro machines and one is working fine and the other is not. On both machines I did a Default installation plus some development packages (gcc, make, gtk2-win32, etc...) On the machine