OFFTOPIC: Re: [plug] Shell query...

[Leon Brooks]

Matt Kemner wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Peter Wright wrote:
>> You know everyone's favourite spam storage and retrieval unit,
>> /dev/null? Well, I was just wondering if there is a simple way to
>> simulate the effect of /dev/null on a non-Linux system.

> This is really not the sort of question you should be sending to a Linux
> list, but if NT is anything like DOS, you can pipe output to the NUL:
> special device

> ie cvs ... | NUL:

cvs ... >NUL

Or, if you prefer, cvs ... >c:\winnt\system\nul.dll - for a while there,
you could crash IIS by asking for /nul

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