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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
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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!

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