On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> Charles Cazabon wrote:
>>>> Hmmm I guess we need a /dev/one? (Actually not a bad thing to have)
>>> IMHO the name /dev/one would be a bad idea. Becouse this could mean an
>>> integer one which is 00000001 for 8-bit, 0000000000000001 for 16-bit, and
>>> so on.
>> Hmmm -- something like /dev/~zero would work, if you can stand non-
>> alphanumeric characters in your filenames.
> (t)csh people won't like this (bash also uses ~ for $HOME, ~zero for
> user zero's HOME...).
IMHO, bash only uses a LEADING ~ as $HOME so /dev/~zero would work
fine. In fact, I've just tried "touch /tmp/~test" under both bash and
tcsh, and in both cases, it works fine...
Best wishes from Riley.
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