Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!mailrus!uflorida!haven!ncifcrf!nlm-mcs!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null Message-ID: <8572@smoke.ARPA> Date: 24 Sep 88 04:03:29 GMT References: <8488@smoke.ARPA> <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1049@sybase.sybase.com> <1414@star.cs.vu.nl><1247@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 5 In article <1247@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis) writes: > command | vax No, the pipe will constipate since the "vax" command (equivalent to :) does not read its input.