From owner-ntemacs-users@june Wed Sep 25 14:34:17 1996 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [nil "Wed" "25" "September" "1996" "16:41:12" "-0400" "Peter Breton" "pbreton@volte-2.i-kinetics.com" nil "12" "Q: configuring man.el" "^From:" nil nil "9" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from joker.cs.washington.edu (joker.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.42]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.5/7.2ju) with SMTP id OAA11989 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 14:34:15 -0700 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu (june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]) by joker.cs.washington.edu (8.6.12/7.2ws+) with ESMTP id OAA16655 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 14:34:09 -0700 Received: from ns.i-kinetics.com (ns.i-kinetics.com [198.69.254.24]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.5/7.2ju) with SMTP id NAA05323 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:43:50 -0700 Received: (Unknown UID 8@localhost) by ns.i-kinetics.com (8.6.11/8.6.5) id QAA12019; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:42:31 -0400 Received: from dirac.i-kinetics.com(192.31.81.157) by ns.i-kinetics.com via smap (V1.3) id sma012017; Wed Sep 25 16:42:30 1996 Received: from volte-2.i-kinetics.com ([192.31.81.196]) by i-kinetics.com (4.1/SMI-4.1/UUNET) id AA29060; Wed, 25 Sep 96 16:41:41 EDT Received: by volte-2.i-kinetics.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA05386; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:41:12 -0400 Message-Id: <199609252041.QAA05386@volte-2.i-kinetics.com> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960925190650.00898d50@spox> References: <2.2.32.19960925190650.00898d50@spox> Reply-To: pbreton@i-kinetics.com From: Peter Breton To: "Mark D. Grosen" Cc: ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Subject: Q: configuring man.el Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:41:12 -0400 Mark> BTW: man.el has a hard-coded /dev/null which needs to be Mark> changed for NT to just nul. It would be nice if there was a Mark> global var for null that the various packages could use. There is a sorta global one: grep-null-device. This is because the grep function used a hard-coded /dev/null (I remember seeing it back in 19.28 or so) and ran into exactly the problem you mention. You should also report it as a bug. Peter