using nul: with windows?

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From: Scott Mark
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:54

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I'm having real trouble with nul: in windows:

echo > nul
echo > nul:

both cause sharing violations.  (I have 'share' installed, though I don't
think that it's used for nul:.)

Many of my batch files redirect output to nul:, so they won't run from a DOS
shell (full-screen or in a window), and MS C/C++ 7.0 programmer's workbench
won't compile files under windows, because it generates makefiles that
redirect output to nul:

Has anyone heard of this problem or a fix for it?
I'm using Dos 5.0, Win 3.1, and 386-Max.

Scott Mark
sjm@miles.com

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From: sjm@miles.com (Scott Mark)
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Subject: using nul: with windows?
Message-ID: <1992Aug18.135428.11140@miles.com>
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:54:28 GMT
Organization: Miles Inc., Diagnostics Division, Elkhart, IN
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