Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:9285 comp.bugs.4bsd:998 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!vsi1!altnet!uunet!mcvax!roberto From: roberto@cwi.nl (Rob ten Kroode) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null Keywords: poor man's Unix Message-ID: <605@sering.cwi.nl> Date: 19 Sep 88 15:12:46 GMT References: <8488@smoke.ARPA> <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1049@sybase.sybase.com> <1414@star.cs.vu.nl> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 21 In article <1414@star.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes: #If one wants to run a command with output getting discarded, the obvious #solution is: # # command > /dev/null # #But what would you do if you happened to have no such device? :-) This is impossible, you need the bitbucket for byte allocation, remember? #-- # Alles klar, |Maarten Litmaath @ Free U Amsterdam: # Herr Kommissar? |maart@cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart Jawohl! -- | The two rules of Rob: Rob ten Kroode (roberto@cwi.nl) | rule #1 : I am _always_ right. | rule #2 : If I am not right, apply rule #1. "I'm your icecream man; stop me when I'm passin' by..." Van Halen