Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (Marty) (05/21/88)
I was just playing around with had trouble doing things : cat * | cat >/dev/null was coming up with broken pipe errors. Turns out /dev/null was configured as a block device. Changing it to a character device appears to solve the problem. Is /dev/null supposed to be a block or character device? My distribution proto file had it as a block file. I don't know how the initial root file system was configured. marty ARPA: leisner.henr@xerox.com GV: leisner.henr NS: martin leisner:henr801c:xerox UUCP: nsc!nscimg!amps!marty
phil@osiris.UUCP (Philip Kos) (05/24/88)
(apologies - there was no good [for me] mail reply path in the original article) On the UNIX systems I have access to here, /dev/null is a character device. Phil Kos Information Systems ...!uunet!pyrdc!osiris!phil The Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, MD