Gary Chambers wrote in a message to Mark Kimes:

 MK> Type "DIR NUL" at a command line.  Surprise.  :-)

 GC> Hmmph!  Well, I'll be!  CMD.EXE does, in fact, display the
 GC> contents of the \DEV directory (only NUL on my system). 
 GC> 4OS2 simply displays the current [sub]directory followed by
 GC> \NUL and shows a 1024 byte file named NUL.  Weird.  Thanks
 GC> for showing the me the error of my ways.  ;-)

This is only on an HPFS partition.  I tried it on a FAT partition and it
said "file not found".

JM 
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