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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null
Keywords: backup copy of /dev/null
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Date: 21 Sep 88 19:24:01 GMT
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Better to load /dev/null from a back up disk than to do what one of
the Unipress people did.  They got the minor number wrong and used
the one for /dev/mem.  It's amazing what happens when programs that
aren't expecting any input suddenly get some (especially binary stuff
like /dev/mem).

-Ron