From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu.nokada@...>
Date: 2003-05-09T08:15:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Platform independent null device access

Hi,

At Fri, 9 May 2003 07:22:44 +0900,
Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:
> > NUL on win,
> 
> AFAIK Windows *has* /dev/null but things may be different with the
> obsolete 9x series.

Really?  Don't you mean cygwin?

Anyway, what about this?

  def File.null
    open("/dev/null", "r+")
  rescue Errno::ENOENT
    open("nul", "r+")
  end

-- 
Nobu Nakada