From: lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject: RE: ps, test, /dev/null questions
18 Sep 1997 16:59:54 -0700
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To: "Khosla, Deepak" <DKhosla AT Compaq DOT com>,
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At 02:06 PM 9/18/97 -0500, Khosla, Deepak wrote:
>-	Sending anything to /dev/null does create a file that size (not 
>good), however if you input from it, you don't get anything (strange 
>but good)

I've made /dev/null a directory.  This works nicely since it never grows
and nothing ends up in the directory.  It has worked real well for me and 
seems to be a better alternative than using a file called null in the
/dev directory, IMHO.

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