From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2002-11-20T03:21:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows bitbucket equivalent?

> > 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.


Yeah, like so many other M$ "features", they probably didn't want to
confuse the masses with sillyness like actually HAVING the
file/device there rather than making it "magic".  </sarcasm>


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