From: Brian Wisti <brian@...>
Date: 2002-11-20T01:18:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows bitbucket equivalent?



> > 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?
> 
> No more so that File.open("/dev/null", "w") would create a file named
> /dev/null in unix, no.

That makes sense.  I was confused, though, because there actually is a
file "/dev/null" on my UNIX box, but I didn't see a file "nul" on the
Windows machine.

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