From: Brian Wisti <brian@...>
Date: 2002-11-19T13:59:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows bitbucket equivalent?

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Hi Nobu,

At 10:42 AM 11/18/2002 +0900, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>At Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:45:48 +0900,
>Brian Wisti wrote:
> > I'm working over somebody else's Ruby code, and one of the methods
> > used during testing redirects all output to /dev/null.  This is not a
> > problem on any flavor of UNIX or Linux that I'm familiar with, but on
> > Windows XP it raises a "ErrNo::ENOENT: No such file or directory"
> > error.  Is there an equivalent file or means of temporarily disabling
> > $stderr/$stdout/$defout?
>
>nul

I feel so silly asking, but do you mean along the lines of this?

         File.open("nul", "w")

No, wait.  That'd just make a file called "nul", wouldn't it?  What am I 
missing here?  Is there a good online resource for me to study stuff like 
this?  Cross-platform programming is much easier when you know the platform 
you're crossing to.

Thanks,
Brian W


Brian Wisti
brian@coolnamehere.com
http://coolnamehere.com/
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Hi Nobu,<br><br>
At 10:42 AM 11/18/2002 +0900, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Hi,<br><br>
At Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:45:48 +0900,<br>
Brian Wisti wrote:<br>
&gt; I'm working over somebody else's Ruby code, and one of the
methods<br>
&gt; used during testing redirects all output to /dev/null.&nbsp; This is
not a<br>
&gt; problem on any flavor of UNIX or Linux that I'm familiar with, but
on<br>
&gt; Windows XP it raises a &quot;ErrNo::ENOENT: No such file or
directory&quot;<br>
&gt; error.&nbsp; Is there an equivalent file or means of temporarily
disabling<br>
&gt; $stderr/$stdout/$defout?<br><br>
nul</blockquote><br>
I feel so silly asking, but do you mean along the lines of 
this?<br><br>
<x-tab>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</x-tab>File.open(&quot;nul&quot;,
&quot;w&quot;)<br><br>
No, wait.&nbsp; That'd just make a file called &quot;nul&quot;, wouldn't
it?&nbsp; What am I missing here?&nbsp; Is there a good online resource
for me to study stuff like this?&nbsp; Cross-platform programming is much
easier when you know the platform you're crossing to.<br><br>
Thanks,<br>
Brian W<br><br>
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brian@coolnamehere.com<br>
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