From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-11-20T01:46:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows bitbucket equivalent?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Wisti" <brian@coolnamehere.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:18 AM
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.

I think NUL is perhaps better written as NUL: (i.e.,
it's a device like CON or whatever all the others
are).

Hal